#lay

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

#better #building #come #culture #else

But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts. ↗

— John Thorn

#been #before #cincinnati #citizens #had

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

— John Thorn

#distant #far #future #instant #into

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? ↗

— John Thorn

#ballpark #barry #barry bonds #because #bonds

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things. ↗

— John Thorn

#big-time #dream #few #finally #get

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#exists #important #life #none #often

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#bit #both #could #daddy #family

But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#country music #days #early #full #less

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music. ↗

— Mary Timony

#i #i do #know #many #men

You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time. ↗

— Glenn Tipton

#know #long #long time #me #play