"But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds……" — John Thorn

"But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts."

— John Thorn

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…
The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was…
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition,…
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore…
Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next…
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two…
Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But…
Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can…
Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play,…
Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time,…
We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we…

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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are… — Teresa of Avila
The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by… — Joe Baca
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon. — Felix Adler
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment… — Judy Biggert
President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how. — Barbara Boxer
How you define a problem shapes how you address it. — John O. Brennan
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. — H. Rap Brown
So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of… — Tony Campolo
Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence. — Eric Alterman
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was… — Louis Agassiz
The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become... We have to address the population issue. The United… — Gaylord Nelson
Immigration and border security remain critical issues that I am committed to addressing this year. The good news is that… — John McCain

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"But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds……" — John Thorn

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