ESPN Travels Back to 1927 for 'Real-Time Historical Fiction'
The Diary of Myles Thomas will span Twitter, Medium, The New York Times archives and more.
On Twitter, this season-long baseball yarn will be told via the accounts @1927Diary, @MylesThomas27, @1927_NYYankees and @FordFrick. Other strands encompass espn.com, Medium and the archives of Major League Baseball and The New York Times.
The Diary of Myles Thomas, debuting today, swings ambitiously at serialized long-form historical fiction, imagining the 1927 season from the perspective of one of the team’s pitchers. From the announcement:
Created and produced by Douglas Alden – a digital entrepreneur, three-time Emmy Award writer-producer-director and a founding member of Classic Sports Network (now ESPN Classic), where he was the head of programming and production for the network’s first five years – 1927: The Diary of Myles Thomas is a bold and innovative retelling of the 1927 Yankees season on and off the field.
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