Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off. John Thorn More Quotes by John Thorn More Quotes From John Thorn 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. John Thorn months baseball winning 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 player baseball games 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 basketball inspirational football But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. John Thorn baseball hero dream In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way. John Thorn team baseball years 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 player baseball running 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 powerful baseball past 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 score games play 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 community pride sports 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 play joy children If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century. John Thorn events ties games 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 youth running thinking 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 hero summer boys 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 years son 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 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 stars dream boys This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family. John Thorn pain greek home This is old wine in new bottles, the new bottle is digital technology. But the old wine is the impulse to cheat or stretch the rules for personal or corporate advantage. John Thorn sports There's plenty of cheating and skullduggery and trying to take advantage of a situation, baseball is played by humans. And run by humans. And managed by humans. John Thorn sports There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying. John Thorn much game seventies dying
