John Thorn Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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John Thorn is the Official Historian for Major League Baseball. His views are his own.
Republic
PlatoJohn ThornOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., then 15, had to write a paper on Plato's Republic. Ralph Waldo Emerson, a family friend, told him: "Oliver, pick Plato up and look him in the eye and say, 'Plato, you have been dead 2,000 years. I am alive today. Have you anything to say to me?'" https://t.co/02Fec0eOtK
Paperback, 2012
$13.00Member price:$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Raven
Edgar Allan PoeJohn ThornCheap Books for Sale, from Burgess & Stringer, as advertised in The Police Gazette of Jan 10, 1846. Note Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven going for the seemingly odd sum of 31 cents ... but this was also rendered then as two-and-a-half bits. ("Shave and a haircut, two bits; 25 cents") https://t.co/qpAWMp27W0
Paperback, 2020
$10.28Member price:$9.25 + Free shipping10% off
The Negro Motorist Green-Book: 1940 Facsimile Edition
Victor H. GreenJohn ThornVictor H. Green, editor. The Negro Motorist Green Book (1949). Sold recently at @SwannGalleries for $50,000. "Carry your Green Book with you--You may need it." https://t.co/u1yhVObL6u
Paperback, 2018
$8.14Member price:$4.07 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Base-Ball: How to Become a Player: With the Origin, History, and Explanation of the Game
Henry ChadwickJohn ThornJohn Ward, photo by Falk. Also, his book as signed to George Wright (Base-Ball, How to Become a Player, with the Origin, History, and Explanation of the Game.) https://t.co/75f64w9416
Paperback, 2015
$9.95Member price:$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Game Faces: Early Baseball Cards from the Library of Congress
Peter DevereauxJohn Thorn@scott_simkus My friend Peter Devereaux, who wrote the splendid "Game Faces," also wrote a strangely compelling book on the card catalog. Nerds of the World, Unite! https://t.co/VSTBxvrJxT
Out of stock
The Hidden Game of Football: A Revolutionary Approach to the Game and Its Statistics
Bob CarrollJohn ThornNext year the University of Chicago Press will reissue The Hidden Game of Football, which Bob Carroll, Pete Palmer and I wrote 35 years ago. I received the new cover design today. https://t.co/jIkA2AFsLP
Paperback, 2023
$22.50Member price:$11.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Katzenjammer: A Selection of Comics
Rudolph DirksJohn Thorn@ecolleary @ransomcenter It's an imitative mix of R.F. Outcault (Buster Brown, Tige), Fred Opper (Happy Hooligan), Rudolph Dirks (Katzenjammer Kids).
Paperback, 2015
$29.95Member price:$29.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
Eliot AsinofJohn ThornStuds Terkel interviews Eliot Asinof about his new book, Eight Men Out, on May 5, 1963. https://t.co/kVg63YfJzI https://t.co/ldlb7LXqfh
Paperback, 2000
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Taxi Cab
Alex SummersJohn ThornJessie Tarbox Beals toured Manhattan with author Kate Sanborn, looking for "cigar-store Indians" and other wooden promotional figures. The result: a little book worth your attention. "Hunting Indians in a Taxi-Cab," online with wonderful photos at: https://t.co/h2u9sUHiet https://t.co/wbWZuVxOtN
Paperback, 2017
$9.95Member price:$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis.
Eric BerneJohn Thorn@Jbroks86 Eric Berne, from Games People Play: "Let's You and Him Fight." https://t.co/oZzH1ILPuq
Paperback, 1996
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book