Quotes John Thorn

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood ...

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly fright...

As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fa...

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and...

Baseball is in danger, everyone agrees. Player salaries are ...

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between t...

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers...

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its ...

But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they...

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never o...

Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay...

Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its bal...

Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game...

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing...

For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast ...

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our liv...

From imported professionals it should have been a short step...

I think that much of this was running in background as I con...

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of even...

If this is how children's play enters the adult world, is it...

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ...

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a ...

Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinc...

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the...

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate ...