Effectively Wild Episode 858: John Thorn on the New Details About Baseball’s Origin Story

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Ben and Sam talk to MLB’s Official Historian, John Thorn, about a trio of founding documents now up for auction that casts light on the truth behind baseball’s long-disputed origin story.

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0:00.0	I am the past, you'll never forgive me
0:03.3	I'd probably come back and stay if you'd let me
0:07.3	I am the past and you cannot ignore me
0:10.8	You've got no idea what happened before me
0:15.0	I'm your first time, I'm a worst
0:18.5	I'm the first time you ever rehearsed
0:22.6	I'm the ghost of ex-girlfriends, but mostly I'm me
0:27.4	I'm the past, you'll never forgive me
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to episode 858 of Effectively Wild
0:34.3	The Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus
0:36.8	Presented by our Patreon supporters and the play index
0:39.9	at baseballreference.com
0:41.6	I'm Ben Lindbergh of 538
0:43.8	joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectus, hello Sam
0:46.6	Howdy
0:47.2	And we have a guest today
0:48.8	Whether or not you've heard of him
0:50.0	You have certainly heard of and benefited from his work
0:53.0	He has written or co-written with Pete Palmer
0:55.7	The Hidden Game of Baseball, a foundational, Saber-metric book
0:59.1	He served as the senior creative consultant for Ken Burns' Baseball
1:03.5	And he was named the official historian of Major League Baseball
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