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John Thorn (April 17, 1947—) is a noted sports historian.

Thorn was born in Stuttgart, West Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1949. He graduated from Beloit College in 1968.

Thorn is the author and editor of numerous books on baseball, including Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball, Total Football: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Football, Treasures of the Baseball Hall of Fame, The Hidden Game of Baseball, and The Armchair Book of Baseball.

Thorn served as the senior creative consultant for the Ken Burns documentary Baseball (documentary).

In 2004 Thorn discovered documentation that traced the origins of baseball to 1791 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

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