Edward Achorn

Washington, D.C. (November 2, 2010) — Move over, Peter Gammons, Buster Olney and all the experts at ESPN and MLB.com! Baseball historian Ed Achorn defied the greatest minds in baseball analysis with his lonely, eerily accurate prediction that the San Francisco Giants would win the World Series in five games.

“In the World Series, it’s all about pitching, and I knew the Giants had the edge,” said Achorn, author of the acclaimed “Fifty-nine in ’84,” a Casey Award finalist for the best baseball book of 2010.

Achorn boldly challenged the experts, who overwhelmingly predicted a Rangers victory. Nine of ten ESPN experts, including Buster Olney, predicted the Rangers. So did nine of fifteen experts at MLB.com. None picked the Giants in five. A computer simulation that played 1,001 games predicted the Rangers in six. And Keith Olbermann said: “I like the Rangers and fast: five or six games.”

Hall of Famer Peter Gammons and ESPN’s Chris Berman picked the Giants, but only in seven.

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