Since being let go by the Baltimore Orioles after the 2021 season, longtime baseball and hockey play-by-play man Gary Thorne has stayed busy. Thorne has filled in on play-by-play duties for New York ...

So one more for the year. First, my sincerest thanks to Olivia Witherite, our videographer and digital editor, and Pete Kerzel, our content editor. They are the best. Their earnest interest in Hitting ...

At the urging of editor Pete Kerzel and videographer Olivia Witherite of MASNsports.com, who for reasons only they can explain wished to be part of another season of this column, here we meet again.

There is no reason for the selection of "A Bullet for Cinderella" over the myriad of other works by John MacDonald. That is one of the great truths about his writing. Pick a book and you will enjoy.

Can we even begin to understand what people went through in the Great Depression, World War I, World War II or the Dust Bowl? Are we so concentrated on the now that we fail to see how the "then" ...

It is our great good fortune to have Pete Kerzel as the co-producer of Hitting the Books. Pete organizes the written portion of the blog, for which I am deeply grateful. Earlier this summer, you met ...

Dewayne Staats is the TV voice of the Rays. He has done play by play for the Astros, Cubs and Yankees in a career of some 40 years. A smile, a kind word and professionalism are always there. We have ...

Between 1860 and 1869, a most improbable venture would change the landscape of America and the world. The building of a transcontinental railway had long been discussed, but many felt the task ...

When the Germans invaded Paris during World War II, one of Hitler's objectives was to loot as much of the world's great art from museums and private collections as possible. Parisians stripped ...

Gary Thorne is back in the broadcast booth calling baseball games, but not at Camden Yards. Thorne, who served as the Orioles’ primary play-by-play broadcaster on the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network from ...

Sometimes one needs to read just for the joy of it all. Such is the love for Agatha Christie's works that have survived multitudinous changes in societies worldwide. The 1975 publication of Christie's ...

What a treat to be able to introduce you to the co-producer of "Hitting the Books," Olivia Witherite. She has been the coordinator and videographer of this blog from day one and an uncompromising ...