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.
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
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
Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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.
I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective. - John Thorn
I'd just like to see - in writing about baseball - more energy and better craft, minus statistical bludgeoning and invective.
I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such. - John Thorn
I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.
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
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…
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
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.
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