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John Thorn Quotes
Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed. - John Thorn Quotes
And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseballs profitability by running the game like a business. - John Thorn Quotes
As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green. - John Thorn Quotes
Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work. - John Thorn Quotes
Baseball is in danger, everyone agrees. Player salaries are skyrocketing while revenues - and soon, perhaps, teams - are contracting. - John Thorn Quotes
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year. - John Thorn Quotes
Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come. - John Thorn Quotes
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. - John Thorn Quotes
But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English C on the players shirts. - John Thorn Quotes
But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys. - John Thorn Quotes
Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off. - John Thorn Quotes
Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro? - John Thorn Quotes
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young. - John Thorn Quotes
Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things. - John Thorn Quotes
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning. - John Thorn Quotes
For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about. - John Thorn Quotes
From imported professionals it should have been a short step to hiring men of varying ethnic and racial backgrounds, and it was. - John Thorn Quotes
I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth. - John Thorn Quotes
If I havent made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century. - John Thorn Quotes
If this is how childrens play enters the adult world, is it any wonder that adults long to retire so that they can at last get their childhood right? - John Thorn Quotes
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way. - John Thorn Quotes
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a communitys armed might as well as its pride of place and clan. - John Thorn Quotes
Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath. - John Thorn Quotes
More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself. - John Thorn Quotes
My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured lifes course and, thus, me. - John Thorn Quotes
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before. - John Thorn Quotes
Planning to play: thats what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death. - John Thorn Quotes
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past. - John Thorn Quotes
The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor. - John Thorn Quotes
The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball. - John Thorn Quotes
Quotes Cloud
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