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John Thorn has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new…
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But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming…
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In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
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And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability…
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Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next…
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One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago…
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Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the…
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Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on…
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Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within…
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Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates…
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We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them…
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I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
— Rodney Atkins
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There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader…
— Michelle Bachelet
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In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done…
— Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It…
— Nick Clegg
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The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking…
— Walter Chrysler
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I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers.
— David Duchovny
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The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from…
— Theodore Levitt
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When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant.
— Unknown Author
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The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while…
— Unknown Author
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That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.
— Mark Twain
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Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.
— Jean Burden
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NATO remains a military alliance, and we are against having a military alliance making itself at home right in our own backyard;…
— Vladimir Putin
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