All John Thorn Quotes
- Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we… Beings
- In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place… Armed
- 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… All
- My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's… Classmates
- 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… Climatic
- 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… April
- 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. Backyard
- 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… Alternative
- The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor. Attempt
- There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying. Dying
- We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from… American
- 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… Address
- This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League. Even Little