“As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals...” — John Thorn Quote

“As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.”

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

“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?”

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

“Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.”

“But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.”

“I had a nice, pert nose but a plain round face and a mop of curly brown hair. That was not the photograph of a successful model.”

“I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.”

“I've got a beautiful kitchen, which looks like a '60s version of space, with silver chrome, orange glass work surfaces, and brown leather, and it's entirely visual and has little function. I've hardly got any knives, and there's only one wooden spoon and one saucepan. But I think I've got a cheese grater, so that's good.”

“James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.”

“I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'”

“But I understand the importance of being a brown, Muslim woman of faith who is in the public eye, because there aren't that many of us.”