John Thorn Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.”

“The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.”

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

“The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.”

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

“This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.”

“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.”

“Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.”

“For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.”

“Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.”