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John Thorn Quotes: "The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball."

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.



John Thorn Quotes: "In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan."

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.




John Thorn Quotes: "My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me."

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.



John Thorn Quotes: "Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure."

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.




John Thorn Quotes: "But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys."

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.



John Thorn Quotes: "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."

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.



John Thorn Quotes: "This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family."

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.




John Thorn Quotes: "We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments."

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.



John Thorn Quotes: "Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things."

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.



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

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



John Thorn Quotes: "Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year."

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.



John Thorn Quotes: "Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young."

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.




John Thorn Quotes: "Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off."

Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.



John Thorn Quotes: "Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past."

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.



John Thorn Quotes: "Life is more about losing than winning."

Life is more about losing than winning.



John Thorn Quotes: "I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth."

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.



John Thorn Quotes: "If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."

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



John Thorn Quotes: "And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'"

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'



John Thorn Quotes: "Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people."

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



John Thorn Quotes: "The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same."

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



John Thorn Quotes: "Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings."

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.



John Thorn Quotes: "Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath."

Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath.



John Thorn Quotes: "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."

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.



John Thorn Quotes: "Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed."

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.



John Thorn Quotes: "Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences."

Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.



John Thorn Quotes: "I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective."

I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.



John Thorn Quotes: "Just because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who like that sort of thing."

Just because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who like that sort of thing.



John Thorn Quotes: "I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such."

I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.