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John Thorn

American Historian

Born: Apr 17, 1947

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

Game Seventies Woe Dying Lamentation Much

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work. John Thorn

Work Own Pay Define Claim Only Trophies Opposed Ultimately Them Resembles Award Activity Letting Play Players

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come. John Thorn

History Culture Experience Speak Better Will Building Field Group Else Fathers Our Shared Sons Come Within Enables Years Up Than Personal May Anything Anything Else While Level Level Playing Field Playing Playing Field

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. John Thorn

Dreams World Competition Prosperity Heroes National Birth Gave Back Reclaim Booming Spirited Both New Major Leagues Major Leagues Within Around Pastime Expansion Decade National Pastime Place Next Baseball

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. John Thorn

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about. John Thorn

Family Care Our Our Lives About Something Gives Talk Sport Alternative Continuity Provided Left Behind Us Many Lives

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

Myself Game Events Made Worrisome Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Clear Century Chain

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

First Before Something Absolutely Write Never Had He He Or She Days She Learns Just Happen Anything Happened Lessons Baseball Two

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

Home Family Sense Pain Able Return Greek Being Literal Nostalgia

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 civic pride in their accomplishments. John Thorn

Pride Men Own Our Civic Take Bags Know Bid Call Accomplishments Up Personal Packed Them Even Whose Professionals Services

Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail. John Thorn

Great Prevail History Game Sky Will Seen Before Market Carnage Market Forces Those Neither Some Study Study History Forces Condemned Falling Repeat Nor Yes Owners After Who Baseball Necessary Players

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