If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
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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
The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.
John Thorn
And 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 Thorn
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 Thorn
Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.
John Thorn
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
John Thorn
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