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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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If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?
— George Carlin
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had…
— Adolf Hitler
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It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy…
— Paul Cezanne
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I like sweet wines. My idea has always been that when you're young, you like sweet wines; and then you get sophisticated,…
— Sally Jessy Raphael
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No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long; you're just sad, that's all. The mean…
— Audrey Hepburn
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When (the Reds) won, we loved it because we ran into the locker room and touched all the bats and gloves and…
— Ken Griffey, Jr.
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I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to…
— Placido Domingo
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[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon…
— Terry Eagleton
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Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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No... the blues are because you're getting fat or because it's been raining too long. You're just sad, that's all. The mean…
— Holly Golightly
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The mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something…
— Holly Golightly
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