Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players… — John Thorn Backyards Copy Share Image
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next… — John Thorn Baseball Copy Share Image
Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within… — John Thorn Death Copy Share Image
Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity… — John Thorn Activity Copy Share Image
Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do… — John Thorn Ballparks Copy Share Image
Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up… — John Thorn Building Copy Share Image
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming… — John Thorn Around the world Copy Share Image
As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team.… — John Thorn Brown Copy Share Image
We play because we are wired for joy; it is imperative as human beings. — John Thorn Human beings Copy Share Image
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is… — John Thorn April Copy Share Image
“Reflecting on the appeal of history in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, heroine Catherine Morland comments, “I often think it odd that it… — John Thorn Baseball Copy Share Image
Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates… — John Thorn Baseball Copy Share Image
This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League. — John Thorn Also Copy Share Image
Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the… — John Thorn Distinction Copy Share Image
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family. — John Thorn Able Copy Share Image
The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new… — John Thorn Attendance Copy Share Image
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its… — John Thorn Challenges Copy Share Image
I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion,… — John Thorn Backgrounds Copy Share Image
But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the… — John Thorn Boys Copy Share Image
But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They… — John Thorn Address Copy Share Image
