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Walt Whitman, Baseball Reporter

John Thorn
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3 min readApr 25, 2016

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2009 Topps Heritage
Atlantics, 1859–60
Whitman’s report in the Brooklyn Times of June 18, 1858.

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Written by John Thorn

John Thorn is the Official Historian for Major League Baseball. His most recent book is Baseball in the Garden of Eden, published by Simon & Schuster.

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