"There was much woe and lamentation in the……" — John Thorn

"There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying."

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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…
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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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a… — Karen Armstrong
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. — Marcus Aurelius
The act of dying is one of the acts of life. — Marcus Aurelius
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from… — Marcus Aurelius
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as… — Francis Bacon
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a… — Brigitte Bardot
All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. — Richard Barnfield
I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. — Richard Baxter

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