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> [In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thorn/in-over-160-years-of-recorded-baseball-history-no-team-had-ever-won-a/)

[John Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thorn/)

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## More by John Thorn

> [In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thorn/in-over-160-years-of-recorded-baseball-history-no-team-had-ever-won-a/)

[John Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thorn/)

> [One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thorn/one-of-the-first-lessons-he-or-she-learns-is-that-in-baseball/)

[John Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thorn/)

> [Life is more about losing than winning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thorn/life-is-more-about-losing-than-winning/)

[John Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thorn/)

> [Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thorn/why-we-play-as-children-is-not-because-it-is-our-work-or-because-it/)

[John Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thorn/)

> [We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thorn/we-are-fans-because-the-game-also-appeals-to-our-local-pride-our/)

[John Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thorn/)

> [Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thorn/pursuing-employment-or-climatic-relief-we-live-in-voluntary-exile/)

[John Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thorn/)

> [There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thorn/there-was-much-woe-and-lamentation-in-the-seventies-that-the-game-was/)

[John Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thorn/)

> [The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thorn/the-heroes-of-our-youth-grow-old-the-boys-of-summer-in-their-ruin-in/)

[John Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thorn/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thorn/finally-for-all-of-us-but-a-lucky-few-the-dream-of-playing-big-time/)

[John Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thorn/)

> [If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thorn/if-i-haven-t-made-myself-clear-this-worrisome-chain-of-events/)

[John Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thorn/)

> [My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thorn/my-egotistical-concern-was-less-that-i-would-fail-to-relate-to-my/)

[John Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thorn/)

> [More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thorn/more-fundamentally-it-is-a-dream-that-does-not-die-with-the-onset-of/)

[John Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thorn/)

> [Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thorn/yes-we-ve-seen-it-all-before-and-yes-those-who-do-not-study-history/)

[John Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thorn/)

> [We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thorn/we-know-these-men-are-professionals-whose-services-are-up-for-bid-and/)

[John Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thorn/)

> [The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-thorn/the-national-league-was-born-the-following-year-as-an-attempt-to/)

[John Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-thorn/)

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