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John Thorn

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

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

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"Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!"

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"Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else."

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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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"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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"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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"For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about."
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