More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.
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.