Quotes about John Thorn

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood:...

#John Thorn

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

#John Thorn

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

#John Thorn

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

#John Thorn

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or...

#John Thorn

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family...

#John Thorn

For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone...

#John Thorn

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball...

#John Thorn

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

#John Thorn

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

#John Thorn

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

#John Thorn

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where...

#John Thorn