Why 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 ThornAnd then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'
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 Thorn