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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Poem Of The Week: Baseball
This week a poem by a guy you may have actually heard of. “Baseball” is from John Updike’s final poetry collection — Endpoint.. The poem lopes along nicely, like a midweek summer day game somewhere in the middle of America. … Continue reading
The Definitive Unsourced Milton Bradley Timeline
Update: As history unfolds, so must our recordings of it change. Here is the world famous Milton Bradley Timeline with an update for recent events: I meant to say something intelligent and original about the recent Milton Bradley/Lou Pineilla fracas. … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Kooks
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The Stillness: Anatomy of a Moment
Right off, I knew that Pitchers and Poets was on to something. It may have had to do with Fernando up there glaring at the heavens or a baseball mitt. And now I’m glad to be a part of it, … Continue reading
A Step Towards World Domination
After months of harsh negotiations friendly emails, I’m pleased to announce the arrival of Ted Walker to the Pitchers & Poets cohort — now two members strong. Ted blogs about baseball at one of my favorite sites, Waiting For Berkman, … Continue reading
Posted in Spring Training
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The Union Forever
I recently caught my first ever episode of Studio 42 with American Treasure Bob Costas® on the MLB Network. Costas interviewed Bob Gibson and Tim McCarver for the whole hour and had me fascinated from the get-go. Gibson is disarmingly … Continue reading
Posted in Conventional Wisdom, Media, Thinking
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Poem Of The Week: Along Came Ruth
I’ve been wanting to get into more of the early 20th century genre of baseball poetry as written by sports writers. None of the vague stuff, no complicated metaphors or symbolism. Nope. This is fun, this is baseball poem as … Continue reading
Posted in Poem of the Week
Tagged Albert Pujols, Babe Ruth, Ford C Frick, Poem of the Week
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The Mulder Collective
Something really weird happened to me this afternoon. I got all nostalgic about Mark Mulder. I was thinking about pitching, preparing to write a post about the rise of a new wave of aces, when all of a sudden there … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball the Teacher, Features
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Poem Of The Week: The Buddhists Have the Ball Field
Here’s a poem from James Tate. The Buddhists have the ball field. Then the teams arrive, nine on one, but only three on the other. The teams confront the Buddhists. The Buddhists present their permit. There is little point in … Continue reading