#on

The most hazardous part of our expedition to Africa was crossing Piccadilly Circus. ↗

— Joseph Thomson

#circus #crossing #expedition #hazardous #most

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn. ↗

— Peter Thomson

#sensitive #tender #ton #touch #worth

Like having your own licence to print money. ↗

— Roy Thomson

#licence #like #money #own #print

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#belong #heart #high #manners #may

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. ↗

— John Thorn

#back #baseball #birth #booming #both

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. ↗

— John Thorn

#between #day #game #heritage #hope

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

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

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? ↗

— Virgil

#earth #full #our #region