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Game Quotes by John Thorn
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
- 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…
- 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.
- There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was 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…
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