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Category Archives: Poem of the Week
Poem Of The Week: Anthony Claggett
Short little poem this week by Hart Seely and a link to a website from which it came: Bardball, whose mission is “reviving the art of baseball doggerel.” Anthony Claggett, Your fastball, they flag it. It floats like a maggot, … Continue reading
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Poem Of The Week: Ninth Inning
Donald Hall was inevitable for this blog; he’s the most famous living baseball poet. Maggie suggested a poem called Baseball, but I couldn’t find it online for semi-legal reproduction on my blog. So here’s one called Ninth Inning that I … Continue reading
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Poem of the Week: For Junior Gilliam
This poem by BH Fairchild is not about broadcasters explicitly. But with the passing of Harry Kalas yesterday, it’s nice to read in the context of the radio and the voice coming out of it and how much that voice … Continue reading
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Poem Of The Week: You Can’t Kill An Oriole
I thought of this Ogden Nash poem yesterday when Walkoff Walk started using pictures of dead birds in its Opening Day Lineupstravaganza posts. Anyway, it’s a nice bit of optimism for the time of year when only sports writers have … Continue reading
Poem Of The Week: Invisibility
A nice little poem by Renato Rosaldo that hits on the ordinary/legendary theme I’ve been hitting on with this A-Rod stuff lately: We celebrate their days, eat hot dogs, love baseball, but they say we were born to weed, change … Continue reading
Poem of the Week: ‘Slug the Umpire’
This week’s poem is an anonymous piece published by the Chicago Tribune in 1886. Back in those days, it was common for newspapers to include baseball poetry. In fact, the one baseball poem you’ve heard of, Casey At The Bat, … Continue reading
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Poem Of The Week: The Man into Whose Yard You/Should Not Hit Your Ball
Because this site is called Pitchers & Poets, and because we all need a little more poetry in our lives (I really believe that but only in the literal sense), this website will include some poems. They won’t be especially … Continue reading
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Poem Of The Week: ‘The Crowd At The Ball Game’
Poem Of The Week: The Crowd At The Ball Game By William Carlos Williams The crowd at the ball game is moved uniformly by a spirit of uselessness which delights them — all the exciting detail of the chase and … Continue reading →