John Thorn 1243956 171853642 2007-11-16T08:52:13Z BOTijo 3729068 +DEFAULTSORT '''John Thorn''' (born [[April 17]], [[1947]]) is a noted [[sport]]s [[historian]]. Thorn was born in [[Stuttgart]], [[West Germany]], and immigrated to the [[United States]] in [[1949]]. He graduated from [[Beloit College]] in [[1968]]. Thorn is the [[author]] and [[editing|editor]] of numerous books on [[baseball]], including ''[[Total Baseball|Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball]]'', ''[[Total Football: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Football]]'', ''[[Treasures of the Baseball Hall of Fame]]'', ''[[The Hidden Game of Baseball]]'', and ''[[The Armchair Book of Baseball]]''. He founded [[Total Sports Publishing]] and served as its [[Publisher]] from 1998-2002. Thorn served as the senior creative consultant for the [[Ken Burns]] [[Documentary film|documentary]] ''[[Baseball (documentary)]]''. In [[2004]] Thorn discovered documentation that traced the origins of baseball to [[1791]] in [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]]. His next book, ''[[Baseball in the Garden of Eden]]'', will be published with [[Simon and Schuster]] in Spring 2008. 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 Folklore Society]]. Thorn is also the co-author with Pete Palmer and Bob Carroll of ''The Hidden Game of Football''. 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. ==External links== * [http://thornpricks.blogspot.com/ Thornpricks] Thorn's [[blog]] * [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1162303/ International Movie Data Base (imdb.com)] {{DEFAULTSORT:Thorn, John}} [[Category:1947 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American sportswriters]]