People who don't include a Leroy option for 'other' need the ban-hammer.CardsofSTL wrote:The five people that voted WTF need an ass whupping
Baseball Poetry
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Can't be part of the herd.Joe Shlabotnik wrote:People who don't include a Leroy option for 'other' need the ban-hammer.CardsofSTL wrote:The five people that voted WTF need an ass whupping
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A link to Yusef Komunyakaa's poem "Glory": https://s3.amazonaws.com/scschoolfiles/372/glory.pdf
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Martin Espada's "Rain Delay: Toledo Mud Hens, July 8, 1994": http://bourguignomicon.blogspot.com/201 ... -1994.html
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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.
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Re: Baseball Poetry
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
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That was option 2 in the poll and everyone hates it.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