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.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Player, Treasure

  John Thorn (1995). “Baseball: our game”, Penguin Books

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• We play because we are wired for joy; it is imperative as human beings.

  John Thorn

  Play, Joy, Humans

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• It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep as much of that childhood with us as we grow into adulthood, as we can muster... And even after we're past the point of being able to play the game with any skill, if we love it, then it's like Peter Pan - we remain boys forever, we don't die.

  John Thorn

  Children, Boys, Past

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• More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

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  Dream, Home, Past

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• One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Writing, Two

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• 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.

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  Baseball, Powerful, Past

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

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Writing, Energy

  Fuente: bleacherreport.com

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• 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

  Hands, Data, Experts

  Fuente: bleacherreport.com

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• Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

  John Thorn

  Team, Player, Games

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• 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.

  John Thorn

  Father, Son, Years

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• 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

  Summer, Hero, Boys

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

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  Pain, Home, Greek

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• 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

  Running, Thinking, Youth

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• As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.

  John Thorn

  Team, Fall, Heart

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

  John Thorn

  Games, Ties, Events

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• 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.

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  Children, Play, Joy

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• 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

  Sports, Pride, Community

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

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  Games, Play, Score

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• Life is more about losing than winning.

  John Thorn

  Winning, Losing, Life Is

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• 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

  Mean, People, Bored

  Fuente: bleacherreport.com

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• Pero el sueño nunca se olvida, sólo se deja de lado y nunca está fuera de nuestro alcance: Donde antes el sueño conectaba a los niños con el mundo de los hombres, ahora vuelve a conectar a los hombres con el espíritu de los niños.

  John Thorn

  Dream, Stars, Boys

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• La repetición a distancia se transforma en instantánea, y la repetición futura no puede estar lejos.

  John Thorn

  Instant Replay, Instant, Replay

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• 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.

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  Failing, Egotistical, Concern

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• 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

  Past, Relief, Employment

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• For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.

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  Baseball, Winning, Months

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