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Re: Baseball Poetry

Posted: February 9 19, 9:17 pm
by Joe Shlabotnik
CardsofSTL wrote:The five people that voted WTF need an ass whupping
People who don't include a Leroy option for 'other' need the ban-hammer.

Re: Baseball Poetry

Posted: February 9 19, 10:47 pm
by CardsofSTL
Joe Shlabotnik wrote:
CardsofSTL wrote:The five people that voted WTF need an ass whupping
People who don't include a Leroy option for 'other' need the ban-hammer.
Can't be part of the herd.

Re: Baseball Poetry

Posted: February 11 19, 6:57 pm
by sighyoung
A link to Yusef Komunyakaa's poem "Glory": https://s3.amazonaws.com/scschoolfiles/372/glory.pdf

Re: Baseball Poetry

Posted: February 11 19, 6:59 pm
by sighyoung
Martin Espada's "Rain Delay: Toledo Mud Hens, July 8, 1994": http://bourguignomicon.blogspot.com/201 ... -1994.html

Re: Baseball Poetry

Posted: February 11 19, 7:27 pm
by sighyoung
Here's a link to some baseball poems written by Ogden Nash that were published in Life magazine in its September 5, 1955 issue. You'll notice that there's a poem about Stan Musial, for instance: https://books.google.com/books?id=3FYEA ... &q&f=false

Re: Baseball Poetry

Posted: February 11 19, 7:33 pm
by sighyoung
I might as well include other baseball references about poets, while I'm at it. Here's an article about the poet Donald Hall, who once tried out for the Pirates. https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other- ... -1.3546066

Re: Baseball Poetry

Posted: February 11 19, 7:44 pm
by sighyoung
Here's a brief entry on James Weldon Johnson, a Renaissance man who was the first African American to pass the bar in Florida, was a diplomat in Latin America, novelist and poet, the Field Secretary who helped build the NAACP (he would later become the organizations first black executive secretary), author of the "Black National Anthem" ("Lift Every Voice and Sing"), and . . . the man who introduced the curve ball into the Negro Leagues: http://negroleaguesblog.blogspot.com/20 ... first.html

Re: Baseball Poetry

Posted: February 11 19, 8:04 pm
by sighyoung
Robert Francis

The Pitcher

His art is eccentricity, his aim
How not to hit the mark he seems to aim at,

His passion how to avoid the obvious,
His technique how to vary the avoidance.

The others throw to be comprehended. He
Throws to be a moment misunderstood.

Yet not too much. Not errant, arrant, wild,
But every seeming aberration willed.

Not to, yet still, still to communicate
Making the batter understand too late.

Re: Baseball Poetry

Posted: February 11 19, 8:15 pm
by sighyoung
Here's another poem by Ogden Nash, entitled "Line-up for Yesterday," published in Sport Magazine in January 1949: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_line.shtml

Re: Baseball Poetry

Posted: February 12 19, 8:18 am
by CardsofSTL
sighyoung wrote:Here's another poem by Ogden Nash, entitled "Line-up for Yesterday," published in Sport Magazine in January 1949: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_line.shtml
That was option 2 in the poll and everyone hates it. :(