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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 perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible.
— Darrell Hammond
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I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do…
— Barry Bonds
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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…
— John Thorn
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I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have…
— Nolan Ryan
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Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
— Bob Feller
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Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!
— Joe Garagiola
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Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.
— Bill James
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When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell…
— Tommy Lasorda
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There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.
— Earl Weaver
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Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.
— Bert Campaneris
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I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better…
— Bob Uecker
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Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.
— George Brett
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