Baseball Poetry

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Casey at the Bat
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27%
Line-Up for Yesterday
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Baseball's Sad Lexicon
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7%
365
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33%
WTF?
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33%
 
Total votes: 15

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"Baseball and Writing," by Marianne Moore: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/bas ... nd-writing

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Richard Brautigan, "A Baseball Game, Part 7":

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That’s not a poem, that’s a Brautigan.

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Baseball Canto": http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/ ... canto.html

The link is to a page created by one of my former professors, Al Filreis at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Franklin Pierce Adams, "A Ballad of Baseball Burdens": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/ ... ll-burdens

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lukethedrifter wrote:That’s not a poem, that’s a Brautigan.
This reminds me of a scathing review that Randall Jarrell wrote, in which he said that Oscar Williams' poems "gave the impression of being written on a typewriter by a typewriter."

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Sigh, I guess this means you are putting together that basebal poetry compilation you've been putting off.

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Joe Shlabotnik wrote:Sigh, I guess this means you are putting together that basebal poetry compilation you've been putting off.
Actually, I keep stumbling on baseball anthologies. I've already bookmarked four or five baseball or sports anthologies, and I keep stumbling across poems and even entire books of baseball poems, but with not available link to post them here.

In addition, if I have online access to the various Columbia Granger's indexes to poetry, I could put together lists of this stuff in my sleep.

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For instance, Southern Illinois University Press has a book series entitled Writing Baseball:http://siupress.com/series/writing-baseball

One book that stands out is Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems. I even found an Adobe Acrobat file with the table of contents: http://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/341397016.pdf

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