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John Thorn

"In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan."

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"In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan."

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"The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same."

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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."

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"The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor."

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"I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth."

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"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."

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"In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan."

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"There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying."

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"Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past."

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

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"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."

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