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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people. John Thorn Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If I haven’t made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century. John Thorn Read Quote
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 Read Quote
But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English ‘C’ on the players’ shirts. John Thorn Read Quote
The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor. John Thorn Read Quote
