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“Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.”

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John Thorn, born on April 17, 1947, is a renowned American historian. He is known for his extensive research into the history of baseball, particularly for his work on the comprehensive 'Encyclopedia of Baseball'. more

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Children Play Able Past Dies Games Grows Boys Forever Childhood Skills Roots Peter Adulthood Muster

Author:John Thorn

“Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.”

Play Pay Player Activity Claims Awards Trophies

Author:John Thorn

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

Instant Replay Instant Replay

Author:John Thorn

“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.”

Men World Dream Spirit Stars Boys Forgotten Connected

Author:John Thorn

“Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?”

Games Player Team Television Settling Ties Ballparks

Author:John Thorn

“We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.”

Used Language Needed Weapons Prejudice

Book:The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys

Source: The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys

“For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.”

Men Struggle Great Men Oppressed Oppressors Unfree

Book:How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

“A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn.”

People Way Culture Embrace Treated Newborn

Book:How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

“After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.”

Ifs States Used Interest Class Particular Instruments

Book:How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

“If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means”

Ifs Mean Humanity Prove Revolutionary

Author:Walter Rodney

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