John Thorn
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John Thorn has served as the long-time editor and author of Total Baseball (with Pete Palmer, Mike Gershman, and David Pietrusza) and many other outstanding baseball books including:
- The Hidden Game of Baseball (with Pete Palmer),
- The Complete Armchair Book of Baseball,
- Treasures from the Baseball Hall of Fame: The Official Companion to the Collection at Cooperstown,
- The Whole Baseball Catalogue (with Bob Carroll),
- A Century of Baseball Lore,
- Baseball 10 Greatest Games, and
- The Relief Pitcher.
He is also credited with finding the earliest reference to baseball in the United States in documents found in the city archives in Pittsfield, MA.
He was profiled in the book Baseball: The Writers' Game by Mike Shannon.
His next book, Baseball in the Garden of Eden, will be published with Simon and Schuster in Spring 2009. Thorn writes two columns for the Woodstock Times: "Play's the Thing" (largely sports) and "Wake the Echoes" (arts and letters). He is also a columnist for Voices, the publication of the New York Folkore Society.
In June 2006 SABR awarded Thorn its highest award, the Bob Davids Award. The award honors those whose contributions to SABR and baseball reflect the ingenuity, integrity, and self-sacrifice of the founder and past president of SABR, L. Robert "Bob" Davids.
