"In over 160 years of recorded baseball history,……" — John Thorn

"In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way."

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38 Quotes by John Thorn

John Thorn has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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,…
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…
Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young…

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