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John Thorn Biography

John Thorn (born April 17, 1947) is a sports historian, author, publisher, and cultural commentator. Since March 1, 2011, he has been the Official Baseball Historian for Major League Baseball.

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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 for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

Body, Dream, Fundamentally, Home, Past, Time

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.

Culture, Father, History, Shared, Son, Years

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

Employment, Past, Relief, Voluntary

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

Attendance, Basketball, College, Football, Inspirational, Interest

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.

Bored, Mean, People, Sort, Thing

As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.

Team, Fall, Heart, Fan

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.

April, Baseball, Declare, Months, Stark, Winning

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

Boys, Dylan, Hero, Heroes, Same, Summer

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

Anecdotes, Form, Naturally, Received, Regurgitating, Unless

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

Concern, Egotistical, Failing, Tortured

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

Future, Instant, Instant Replay, Morphs, Replay

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

Boys, Dream, Men, Reconnects, Stars

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

Greek, Home, Literal, Pain

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.

Baseball, Dream, Lucky, Relinquished

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

Armed, Community, Pride, Representation, Sport, Sports

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

Baseball, Team, Way, Years

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

Blissfully, Nature, Planning, Play, Reality, Retirement

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 into adulthood, as we can muster. . . And even after we're past the point of being able to play the game with any skill, if we love it, then it's like Peter Pan - we remain boys forever, we don't die.

Boys, Children, Grow, Peter, Thinking

Life is more about losing than winning.

Life, Life Is, Losing, Winning

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

Baseball, Energy, Invective, Like, Statistical, Writing

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