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Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Road to Character”
David Brooks, author of “The Road to Character,” is a columnist for the New York Times and frequent guest on...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “American Wine: A Coming-of-Age Story”
Tom Acitelli’s “American Wine: A Coming-of-Age Story,” published in 2015, tracks the explosion in wine sales in the U.S. since...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Integrating the Orioles: Baseball and Race in Baltimore”
For this edition of “Hitting the Books,” we turn our attention to one of Baltimore’s most valuable institutions, The Enoch...
Hitting the Books With Gary Thorne: The final chapter
Incredibly, a season of baseball and Hitting the Books is at an end. All adventures – and Hitting the Books...
Hitting the Books With Gary Thorne: “The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth”
Joe Castiglione is in his 35th broadcasting season and his 32nd with the Red Sox. No one has broadcast more...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Beyond Freedom and Dignity”
There are books in the upper echelon of make-you-think works. B.F. Skinner’s controversial (to this day) book on human behavior,...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Animal Farm”
Few books have garnered the accolades that describe “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. As the years pass, the truth of...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Eagle Has Landed”
One of the great treats in doing the Hitting the Books blog this season has been the chance to discuss...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Game Must Go On”
As time moves on, we hear less and less about those baseball players who went into the service in World...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Villette”
Susan Slusser is a sports journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle who covers the Oakland A’s on the baseball beat,...