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

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

- John Thorn

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

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

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

- 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 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