As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.
On March 1 2011 Thorn was named the Official Baseball Historian for Major League Baseball. He graduated from Beloit College in 1968. Robert "Bob" Davids.
