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

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• John Thorn:

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

• John Thorn:

  In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a communit

• John Thorn:

  More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play

• John Thorn:

  My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would k

• John Thorn:

  One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can ha

• John Thorn:

  Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature

• John Thorn:

  Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and o

• John Thorn:

  The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was

• John Thorn:

  The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - ye

• Chris Barber:

  A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.