Gary Thorne, the play-by-play voice of the Baltimore Orioles on MASN, will also provide play-by-play for Major League Baseball's international broadcasts of the American League Championship Series ...

For this edition of "Hitting the Books," we turn our attention to one of Baltimore's most valuable institutions, The Enoch Pratt Free Library. From the library's own records, we find that Enoch Pratt ...

The O's may not be battling their way through postseason play this October, but for O's fans abroad this time of year, the voice of the postseason might start to feel familiar. Gary Thorne, your very ...

Doris Kearns Goodwin. This historian/writer loves history and she loves baseball. If there is such a thing as a sweet read, this is it. Goodwin departs from her award-winning series of historical ...

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 ...

Watch out, Jim Nantz - Gary Thorne can call golf, too. Since 2007, Thorne has been well known for his "Goodbye, home run!" and "Mercy" calls on MASN's Orioles broadcasts. But it is his quiet golf-like ...

Why would a middle school student become interested in Dag Hammarskjöld? I have no idea, but I was, and have through this life held this man and his work in the highest esteem. Hammarskjöld was the ...

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 ...

There are unlikely stories, and “Color Blind” by Tom Dunkel is one of them. During the Great Depression, in of all places, Bismarck, N.D., a car dealership owner named Neil Churchill decided to put ...

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.

John Faragher is a noted historian, particularly regarding the American west. His biography of Daniel Boone is considered a seminal work. "Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles ...