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 ...

Richard Griffin is a highly respected baseball columnist for the Toronto Star. He has covered baseball for decades beginning with the Montreal Expos in 1973. He became the public relations director ...

A great treat to share the Hitting the Books page with a fellow play-by-play announcer – in this case, Bob Carpenter, the television voice of the Nationals on MASN. As Bob says, the baseball history ...

Buck Martinez was a broadcast partner of mine with the Orioles. He is a friend and a good baseball man. "Change Up" is a book he took great pains to get right. This book has a sub title: "How to Make ...

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 ...

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 ...

There will be books written about baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams for as long as the printing presses roll. Williams provided a lot of material in a life filled with his baseball superstar status, ...

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.

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 ...

Bob Edwards hosted the National Public Radio morning show for years. For 12 of those years, baseball broadcaster Red Barber joined Edwards once a week for an over-the-fence conversation on subjects ...

David McCullough has a shelf on my bookcase with all he has written. Yes, I like his work. Thomas Jefferson is quoted in "John Adams" as saying John Adams was "the colossus of independence." No small ...

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 ...