One of the first lessons he... by John Thorn, an American Historian

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“One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.”

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Name: John Thorn

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Apr 17, 1947

Profession: Historian

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