Gary Thorne
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Worst Hard Times”
Can we even begin to understand what people went through in the Great Depression, World War I, World War II...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “One Man’s Meat”
“One Man’s Meat” by E.B. White is a piece of literary history. It reflects on a time when words mattered...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Change Up”
Buck Martinez was a broadcast partner of mine with the Orioles. He is a friend and a good baseball man....
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Nine Innings to Success”
My early look into the workings of Jim Palmer’s “Nine innings to Success: A Hall of Famer’s Approach to Achieving...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Perhaps it is because it was so simply written from the heart. Perhaps it is because the story has no...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Holy Toledo: Lessons from Bill King, Renaissance Man of the Mic”
One of the joys of broadcasting sports is the great people you get to meet that are involved in the...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Brothers In Arms”
Tim Walbert is the director for Orioles games on MASN. We share a love of history and of the books...
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Reclaiming Conversation”
Just how much damage are we doing to every relationship we have, or might have, because of our use of...
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: “In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris, 1900-10”
In this edition of “Hitting the Books,” we take a look at Sue Roe’s “In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism...