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 ...

Buck Showalter's comments on Felipe Alou are on the back cover of "Alou: My Baseball Journey." When the Orioles skipper received an advance copy, he was kind enough to let me read it. I'm glad he did.

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 are unlikely stories, and "Color Blind" by Tom Dunkel is one of them. During the Great Depression, in of all places, Bismarck, N.D., a car dealership owner named Neil Churchill decided to put ...

Tom Hamilton is the "Voice of the Tribe" - the radio voice of the Indians. He is in his 28th year with the team and is one of the reasons working in this business is so much fun. Laughing with Tom, ...

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 ...

Doris Kearns Goodwin. This historian/writer loves history and she loves baseball. If there is such a thing as a sweet read, this is it. Goodwin departs from her award-winning series of historical ...

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 ...