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Hitting the Books: “Baltimore Orioles: 60 Years of Orioles Magic”
For Orioles fans, “Baltimore Orioles: 60 Years of Orioles Magic” is one beautiful book. Jim Henneman has been more involved...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Night the Bed Fell”
For decades, The New Yorker magazine was the elite repository of literary expression. The best of writers longed to have...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Blonde”
I keep track of new writings by Joyce Carol Oates and then, when they are released, I cringe before I...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Fridays with Red”
Bob Edwards hosted the National Public Radio morning show for years. For 12 of those years, baseball broadcaster Red Barber...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “If Beale Street Could Talk”
Let’s hit the books with one of this country’s most influential writers on matters of race relations in the United...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Return of George Washington”
There is a time in U.S. history that we generally take for granted, if we think of it at all....
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Bank Shot”
In case this is the first time you’ve found our blog, welcome! Once a week, we take a look at...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Kid”
There will be books written about baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams for as long as the printing presses roll....
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Crazy Horse – A Life”
Crazy Horse is a name that evokes the history of Native Americans in the western United States at a time...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Old Man and the Sea”
In my 30 years of broadcasting Major League Baseball, there have been far too many plane rides, far too many...