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John Thorn quotes: The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

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 quotes: Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

John Thorn quotes: This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

John Thorn quotes: Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

John Thorn quotes: In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

John Thorn quotes: Just because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who like that sort of thing.

Just because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who like that sort of thing.

John Thorn quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

John Thorn quotes: There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

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

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

John Thorn quotes: Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath.

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 quotes: This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

John Thorn quotes: Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.

Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.

John Thorn quotes: 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.

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 quotes: If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

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

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

John Thorn quotes: 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.

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

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