"Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players……" — John Thorn
"Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work."
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John Thorn
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38 Quotes by John Thorn
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Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It…
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The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was…
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But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition,…
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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…
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Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of 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…
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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…
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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…
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Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play,…
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Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time,…
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We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we…
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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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