CityBall: A Pittsburgh conversation on Black, Jewish and Urban Baseball
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CityBall: A Pittsburgh conversation on Black, Jewish and Urban Baseball

June 24, 2024 , 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

John Thorn, MLB’s Official Historian was born in Germany to Polish Jewish parents in a displaced persons camp in 1947. His parents moved him to New York City, where he fell in love with baseball. In a special online event organized in cooperation with Pittsburgh Hardball Academy, urban Pittsburgh’s premier nonprofit youth baseball club, John Thorn will talk about Black, Jewish and urban baseball, his own life story, and Pittsburgh’s place in baseball history. The event will be moderated by Pittsburgh-based journalist and baseball coach John Miller. Visit us02web.zoom.us/j/89593551397?pwd=h0kqLUDqf4q1m2RjRfVPQgllmo0B92.1 to attend.

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Date:
June 24, 2024
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm