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.
John ThornIn over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
John ThornIf I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
John ThornWhy we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.
John Thorn