John Thorn Quotes

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• Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our…
• 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.
• 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…
• In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
• And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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 not…
• 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.
• Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of…
• Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.
• We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and…
• Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.
• It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep as much of…
• 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…
• Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.
• 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,…
• 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…
• This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
• 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…

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