This edition: John Thorn
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Original tape date: January 11, 2021. First aired: March 17, 2021.A new baseball season looms, once again in the shadow of Covid. But another pestilence in this city 170 years ago helped shape the game's creation myth. Baseball’s official historian, John Thorn, tells why that myth remains a necessary illusion even today.
Guest List
John Thorn MLB Historian and Author
- Juliet Papa, part two
- Sunday, November 16 - 8:00am
- Chicago, part one
- Friday, November 21 - 8:00am
- Chicago, part two
- Saturday, November 22 - 8:00am
- The Con Men (part 1)
- Sunday, November 23 - 8:00am
- The Con Men (part 2)
- Friday, November 28 - 8:00am
- Ed Sorel
- Saturday, November 29 - 8:00am
- Mimi Sheraton, part one
- Sunday, November 30 - 8:00am
- Mimi Sheraton, part two
- Friday, December 5 - 8:00am
- Barry Popik
- Saturday, December 6 - 8:00am
- Mickey Burns
- Sunday, December 7 - 8:00am
- Ed Randall
- Friday, December 12 - 8:00am
- Baseball Preview
- Saturday, December 13 - 8:00am
- Chester Higgins Jr
- Sunday, December 14 - 8:00am
- Juliet Papa, part one
- Saturday, November 15 - 8:00am
- Dorothy Parker
- Friday, November 14 - 8:00am
- The Harlem Hellfighters
- Sunday, November 9 - 8:00am
- Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something
- Saturday, November 8 - 8:00am
- Sam Schwartz
- Friday, November 7 - 8:00am
- Phil Robinson, part two
- Sunday, November 2 - 8:00am
- Phil Robinson
- Saturday, November 1 - 8:00am
- Peter Jennings
- Friday, October 31 - 8:00am
- Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
- Sunday, October 26 - 8:00am
- Ralph Blumenthal
- Saturday, October 25 - 8:00am
- Al Jaffee
- Friday, October 24 - 8:00am
- Michael Malpass
- Sunday, October 19 - 8:00am
- Michael Riedel
- Saturday, October 18 - 8:00am
- Baseball
- Friday, October 17 - 8:00am
