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 int…

- John Thorn

Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.

- John Thorn

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…

- John Thorn

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civ…

- John Thorn

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

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

- John Thorn

I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.

- John Thorn

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…

- John Thorn

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