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Subject: BASEBALL Matches Found: 381 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1-SEP, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Like christmas; my gift's Last Line: Glows, searching for %a trick Subject(s): Baseball; Sports 1920, WHEN CARL MAYS BEANS RAY CHAPMAN, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: The stranger, not here, not now Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports 1960, THE YEAR HOOK HANSEN OWNED THE CAFE, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: No phosphates %nothing from the grill Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports 1973, BUZZING OVER YANKEE STADIUM, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: To rise above the plane's drone Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports 4TH BASE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Decked out in flannels and gripping my mitt Last Line: Covered their eyes, and mumbled, and wouldn't look at me Subject(s): Baseball; Sports 7TH GAME : 1960 SERIES, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Nice day Subject(s): Baseball A BALLAD OF BASEBALL BURDENS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The burden of hard hitting. Slug away Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Baseball; Wit & Humor A BASEBALL TEAM OF UNKNOWN NAVY PILOTS, PACIFIC THEATER, 1944, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assigned a week's good bunt, run, throw Subject(s): Baseball; World War Ii; Aviation & Aviators; Second World War; Airplanes; Air Pilots A FOOL THERE WAS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: A fool there was, and he made his prayer, Last Line: (even as you and I!) Subject(s): Baseball; Fools; Gambling; Sports; Idiots; Wagering; Betting A POEM ABOUT BASEBALL, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years the scenes bustled Last Line: And I might strike out Subject(s): Baseball A SUMMER SERMON FOR MEN, by OLIVER MARBLE Poem Text First Line: I have fought a good fight,' the parson said, his weekly text declaring Last Line: Felt of his muscle on the sly — and felt like god's anointed! Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Play; Sermons; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements AESTHETICS, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Invisible in her dark lectures %I'd see my prof's eyes Last Line: When she'd say, 'god, that's a gorgeous slide' Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ALMOST NAMED HORACE, by JORDAN DAVIS Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Names; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ALONE ON EARTH, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He turned up at the baseball park-- Last Line: And all alone on earth! Subject(s): Baseball; Friendship; Solitude; Sports; Loneliness AMERICA WITHOUT BASEBALL, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: When baseball died Last Line: And felt for the first time %released into free agency Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; United States AMERICANS PLAYING SLOW-PITCH SOFTBALL AT AN AIRBASE ..., by HALVARD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Early september %the first game of Last Line: Don't look back. Something may be %gaining on you.' Subject(s): Army Life; Baseball; Korean War, 1950-1953; Sports ANALYSIS OF BASEBALL, by MAY SWENSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Baseball ANALYSIS OF BASEBALL, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's about %the ball Last Line: Home, and it's %about run Subject(s): Baseball; Sports AND THE RIVER GATHERED AROUND US, by DON ALLEN JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: After they wheeled away the town Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ANDY STANKIEWICZ, YANKEE ROOKIE, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Hooray for the bright neon swing Last Line: Making a comeback for andy stankiewicz Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports ARCHIVES; COOPERSTOWN, N.Y., by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Photos and clippings fade; / no one can find a real signature Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ARCHIVES; COOPERSTOWN, N.Y., by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Photos and clippings fade; %no one can find a real signature Last Line: But endorsements, turnstyles. %'let's play two' Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ART OF BASEBALL POETRY, by MIKE SHANNON Poem Source First Line: A baseball poem should be high and tight Last Line: Calisthenics in the arizona sun and a bird dog in the bushes. %a baseball poem should be %poetry Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ASSIMILATION, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Carl hubbell, a pitcher for the giants Last Line: It has nothing to do with shined shoes %and slicked-down hair Subject(s): Baseball; Sports AT PENN STATION THE TEAM BOARDS THE YANKEE SPECIAL, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: At the mercy of the stars Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports AT THE BALL GAME, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The crowd at the ball game Subject(s): Baseball; Crowds AT THE BALL GAME, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The crowd at the ball game Last Line: Permanently, seriously %without thought Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ATHLETE, by JAMES HUMPHREY Poem Source First Line: Since I was 8, all I wanted in life Last Line: A lost tribe, confined to isolate areas %speaking entirely to itself Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BACK AGAIN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The scribe returns from training camp, Last Line: "comes that one chant, ""how do they look?" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports BALL GAME, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caught off first, he leaped to run to second, but Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BALLAD OF DEAD YANKEES, by DONALD PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: Where's babe ruth, the king of swat Last Line: For all of these, the early dead, %who've gone where no ovations are Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASE STEALER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Poised between going on and back, pulled Last Line: He's only flirting, crowd him, crowd him %delicate, delicate, delicate, delicate - now! Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: One day when I was studying with stan musial, he pointed out Last Line: That is, one may choose the kind of pitch one wants. There %is no ball Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: We stand for 'the star-spangled banner.' the home-plate umpire Last Line: Third-base foul line Subject(s): Baseball; Flags - United States; Sports BASEBALL, by ROBERT GIBB Poem Source First Line: Vivaldi would have loved it Last Line: Violin and violin echo, %across the outside of the plate Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL, by PAUL HOOVER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the world finally ends Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL, by PAUL HOOVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the world finally ends Last Line: Love's green mounument still, %at two in the afternoon Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL, by GAIL MAZUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The game of baseball is not a metaphor Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the time I got my first baseman's mitt Subject(s): Baseball; Wit & Humor; Dean, Dizzy (1910-1974); Kisses BASEBALL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It looks easy from a distance, Subject(s): Baseball BASEBALL AND CLASSICISM, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: Every day I peruse the box scores for hours Last Line: The day she went 5 for 5 against vic raschi Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL AS A FACT OF LIFE, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: A simulated pie crust of poured concrete, with pitchfork marks Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL BY THE OLD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this is the time of the year, my boys" Last Line: The gray - head who would play baseball! Subject(s): Baseball;games;play;spectator (periodical);sports; Recreation;pastimes;amusements BASEBALL CANTO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Watching baseball Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL CANTO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watching baseball Last Line: In the territorio libre of baseball Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL CARDS, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: That first baseball card I saw myself Last Line: I say %I was Subject(s): Baseball; Baseball Cards; Sports BASEBALL PLAYERS, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the bright Last Line: Waits %under the footbridge Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL PLAYERS WAIT, by BOBBY BYRD Poem Source First Line: In the dudley dome Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL'S SAD LEXICON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the saddest of possible words Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: DIVING COMEDY, by ROBERT A. FINK Poem Source First Line: You count on it [baseball] Last Line: He charts, with glee, %the multifoliate levels of the wind Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: THE SEVENTH INNING: 1, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baseball, I warrant, is not the whole Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: THE SEVENTH INNING: 1, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baseball, I warrant, is not the whole Last Line: Her cheekbones cool water; water flows %in her rapid hair. I drink water Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: THE SEVENTH INNING: 7, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quickly exhaust this night of farewell Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: THE SEVENTH INNING: 7, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quickly exhaust this night of farewell Last Line: To add two teams. Therefore minor league %playerrs will advance all too quickly Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: THE SEVENTH INNING: 8, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With boys in the bigs who wouldn't have Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: THE SEVENTH INNING: 8, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With boys in the bigs who wouldn't have Last Line: Kurt, I get the notion that you were %another who never discarded Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: THE SEVENTH INNING: 9, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anything, a keeper from way back Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL: THE SEVENTH INNING: 9, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anything, a keeper from way back Last Line: A collage. Ongoing life became %material for kurtschwitters ball Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BASEBALL?ÇÖS SAD LEXICON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hese are the saddest of possible words Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Baseball; Wit & Humor BEAN TOWN SAGAS: 14. IN COLD FIELDS, by THOMAS SHEEHAN Poem Source First Line: They left us then Last Line: We long ball hitters Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BECAUSE DUST DELIVERS EACH DROP OF RAIN, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Billy knows %there's a point in ricky's steal Last Line: Cold headfirst slide Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports BIG SIX, by THOM ROSS Poem Source First Line: Christy mathewson stepped out of the centerfield clubhouse Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BILLY MARTIN, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Haggard but anchored by a scowl Last Line: To cover up %the places you've been Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports BOMB, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Time slows %one frame at a time Last Line: Cleated black nike paws dirt %like a bull's challenge Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BOTTOM OF THE NINTH, by PATTY SEYBURN Poem Source First Line: Stan drove a fly ball to deep centerfield Last Line: To see the ball committing its inexorable arc Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BOY IS KNOCKING, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: Of babe's black, shiny hair Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Sat down with the old-timers Last Line: And ordered some more decaf %told no stories Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BRIGGS STADIUM, by LAWRENCE PIKE Poem Source First Line: While hank greenberg was out fighting japs Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BUDDHISTS HAVE THE BALL FIELD, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Begins. It would have been called anyway, they %think suddenly Subject(s): Baseball; Sports BYRON VS. DIMAGGIO, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday I was told Last Line: Have to admit that dimag played %sweet music %out there in the magic grass %of center field Subject(s): Baseball; Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Dimaggio, Joseph ("joe"); Poetry And Poets; Sports CALLED SHOT HOME RUN, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: The cubs leading by a sneer Last Line: Breathing forever and ever %into box scores Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports CALLING, by JUDY KATZ-LEVINE Poem Source First Line: Falling asleep in the aftenoon Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CAREER, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: It seems like yesterday %it seems like never Last Line: It seems like yesterday %it seems like never Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CASEY - TWENTY YEARS LATER, by S. P. MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: The bugville team was surely up against a rocky game Last Line: "I'm mighty casey who struck out just twenty years ago." Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CASEY AT THE BAT (1), by ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It looked extremely rocky for the mudville nine that day Last Line: But there is no joy in mudville -- mighty casey has struck out. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CASEY AT THE BAT (2), by ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The outlook wasn't brilliant for the mudville nine that day Last Line: But there is no joy in mudville -- mighty casey has struck out. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CASEY'S REVENGE; A REPLY TO 'CASEY AT THE BAT', by JAMES WILSON (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: There were saddened hearts in mudville Last Line: But mudville hearts are happy now -- for casey hit the ball! Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CATCHER AND SON AT GROSSINGER HOTEL AND COUNTRY CLUB, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: The flurries against the hotel Last Line: His catcher's mitt Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports CENTER FIELD, by RICHARD JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't think it will ever come down Last Line: To turn towards home as the night falls, as the ball, %as the loves, the deaths we grab for our own Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CLASS OF '80, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Don't have to read the alumni news to know Last Line: The goddamn alumni news %takes note Subject(s): Baseball; Sports COBB WOULD HAVE CAUGHT IT, by ROBERT STUART FITZGERALD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sunburnt parks where sundays lie Last Line: Cool reek of the field. Reek of companions Subject(s): Baseball; Cobb, Ty (1886-1961); Sports COBB'S MEMORIES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: A few more weeks, and tyrus cobb will be Last Line: Supreme—awhile—then dropped beside the road? Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Cobb, Ty (1886-1961); Middle Age; Sports COEFFICIENTS OF EXPANSION (A GUIDE TO THE INFANT SEASON), by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What happened in the hot stove league last winter? Last Line: Not intended .. To express for aforementioned expansion said lifelong fan's enthusiasm, approval, or Subject(s): Baseball; Sports COLONEL TIL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We have seen scores of magnates come Last Line: Colonel til! Subject(s): Baseball; Farewell; Praise; Sports; Sportsmanship; War; Parting COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY, by LARRY MOFFI Poem Source First Line: He is a lesson in theology Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 9. TRAFFIC HEAVY AND VERY SLOW, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The stars are being pitched into Last Line: Of vast machines always alert Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Baseball; Games; Sports; Traffic COUPLET, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the tall puffy Variant Title(s): Old Timers' Day Subject(s): Aging; Baseball; Sports COUPLET, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the tall puffy Last Line: Among shades the shadow %of achilles Variant Title(s): Old Timers' Da Subject(s): Aging; Baseball; Sports COVERING FIRST, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: After you've thrown your pitch Last Line: And throw the ball further outside %next time Subject(s): Baseball; Sports CURT FLOOD, by TIM PEELER Poem Source First Line: Try to tell 'em curt Last Line: Your smokey gray eyes %are two extra zeroes %on every contract Subject(s): Baseball; Sports DA GREATA BASEBALL, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Source First Line: Oh! Great game ees baseball Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports DAY AT THE PARK, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Good to see you again %you are right Last Line: Full %of the mind of god Subject(s): Baseball; Nostalgia; Sports DAY I MEET BILLY MARTIN, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: In an aisle this colorman tries Last Line: As his black hair slicks back %toward his yankee world Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports DAYS OF SUCCESS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The sun shines with a brighter beam, Last Line: "the club ""is going good!" Subject(s): Baseball; Happiness; Sports; Success; Joy; Delight DEATH OF RAY CHAPMAN; HE WAS THE BEST FRIEND I HAD - TRIS SPEAKER, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Carl mays had hit five batters Last Line: That fall chicago went to hell in dark socks %and cleveland ruled the world Subject(s): Baseball; Sports DELIVERY, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Oriole is whistling, blue jay brays Last Line: Choiring with a manager's lungs Subject(s): Baseball; Sports DEREK JETER, by ROBERT MYLES HERSHON Poem Source First Line: From under the stands, looking out at the brilliant green Last Line: Williams-dimaggio, a touch of clemens and wells %and on to jeter jr. For ken griffey iii Subject(s): Baseball; Jeter, Derek; Sports DON LARSEN'S PERFECT GAME, by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: Everybody went to bat three times Subject(s): Baseball; Larsen, Don; Sports DON LARSEN'S PERFECT WORLD SERIES GAME, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Despite the fall, eden buzzed Subject(s): Baseball; Larsen, Don; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports DOUBLE PLAY, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: I come into a one out, one on jam Last Line: I panicked in the right direction %is what I think Subject(s): Baseball; Sports DOUBLE PLAY, by ROBERT WALLACE Poem Source First Line: In his sea-lit Last Line: (the pitcher walks), casual %in the space where the poem has happened Subject(s): Baseball; Sports DREAM OF A BASEBALL STAR, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed ted williams Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Williams, Theodore (ted) DREAM OF A BASEBALL STAR, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed ted williams Last Line: Hosannah the home run! D sun Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Williams, Theodore (ted) DREAMS SHOULD NOT DOG GREAT CENTERFIELDERS, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Who come in from the pasture Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports DRINKING ALONE, by KENT FIELDING Poem Text First Line: These were the first years of an old life Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Baseball; Sports; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse ELEGY FOR RICHARD HUGO FROM GAINESVILLE, by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: I will not say there is anything good in this Last Line: Leap high and backhand one going over. %for you friend, for you Variant Title(s): Well Don Subject(s): Baseball; Pennsylvania; Sports; Travel ENDING THE ONE-GAME CATACLYSM, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Yastrzemski pops to nettles at third Last Line: That runs deep into the heart of all things Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports ENOS SLAUGHTER, by JIM LAVELLA HAVELIN Poem Source First Line: My friend's father, I love this story Subject(s): Baseball; Slaughter, Enos (1916-2002); Sports ENTERING THE LOST COUNTRY OF DAVE WINFIELD, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: The sun, oppresive %as a rest stop view Last Line: It could eat a leaf Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports EVERYTHING BUT EVERYTHING, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: When elizabeth at last accepts darcy Last Line: We watch the coastline and assume we know %everything but [or, about] everything Subject(s): Baseball; Sports EXTRA INNINGS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Oh father, dear father, come home with me Last Line: Ere she bounces an iron off your brow! Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers; Sports EXTRA INNINGS, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Playing since two, I look up Last Line: Diving for a liner in the top of the hundred %thousandth, spearing it to keep us tied Subject(s): Baseball; Sports EXTRA INNINGS, by ARTHUR SMITH Poem Source First Line: Back then the ballpark grass was so overgrown Subject(s): Baseball; Sports EXTRA INNINGS: THE TWELFTH INNING: 1., by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before lights, kurt, baseball games were sometimes delayed Subject(s): Baseball; Sports EXTRA INNINGS: THE TWELFTH INNING: 1., by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before lights, kurt, baseball games were sometimes delayed Last Line: The dogers beat the yankees in the world series %for the first time, as johnny podres won three game Subject(s): Baseball; Sports FALL, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Across the infield grass Last Line: We all need a home. Free agency. %choose Subject(s): Baseball; Sports FANS VERSUS ED WHISTON, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Their world in his hand Last Line: Their children, any great blind face Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports FLY BALL, by CAROL MASTERS Poem Source First Line: A fly ball Subject(s): Baseball; Sports FOR JOHN, WHO DID NOT CHOOSE BASEBALL, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Because I loved the bone-white hardness of the ball Last Line: I smile and open my hands to you Subject(s): Baseball; Boys; Sports; Sports - Arenas And Stadia; Teenagers FOR WILLIE STILL IN CENTER, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The walls of southern pine or northern brick Last Line: Their children are not on their toes, whose cleats %dig in like bombs, whose eyes are something to s Subject(s): Baseball; Sports FROM ALTITUDE, THE DIAMONDS, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You can always spot them, even from high up Last Line: He has loved forever, on his magnificent tiny way %to an easy stand-up three Subject(s): Baseball; Sports FULL COUNT, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: The umpire's blind %and the pitcher's throwing tin cups Last Line: Wheneve the end comes-- %we will still be here, settled %into the voice of our calling Subject(s): Baseball; Sports FUTURE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Remember that mountain? %at season's end we chose one known Last Line: Hand in hand, shades wed, %rehearsing for the journeying ahead Subject(s): Baseball; Sports GAME, by JOHN OLIVER SIMON Poem Source First Line: Indise my heart the page of pentacles Subject(s): Baseball; Sports GHOSTS OF STEELTOWN, by PETER F. VAIRA Poem Source First Line: At night mr. Frick and mr. Carnegie walk their mill in swallow tail coats Last Line: Stand quiet men, %who talk of baseball scores Subject(s): Baseball; Sports GIL MCDOUGALD, YANKEE INFIELDER, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Your luck too, religious boy Last Line: Strange offerings %to the lord Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports GILIAD, by PHIL RIZZUTO Poem Source First Line: I was with gil mcdougald the other day Last Line: I said, thanks gil Subject(s): Baseball; Sports GIVE ME A GIRL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Give me a girl who understands the game Last Line: "give me a girl—who understands the game!" Subject(s): Baseball; Ignorance; Sports; Women; Dullness; Stupdity GIVE PRAISE FOR BASES, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: As he crosses home plate Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports GOING TO THE BALLGAME, by CHARLES B. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Peenuts, pop-corn, crackerjax! Last Line: Over the sink, said to me %'well, what are you going to do today?' Subject(s): Baseball; Sports GOOD TRAINING FOR POETRY, by JACK ROGERS RIDL Poem Source First Line: Thanks,' my father said, and slapped Last Line: On the bench, a daughter %dashing home from first, %a father dropping out of sight Subject(s): Baseball; Sports GREATEST OF WEAPONS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The jawbone samson swung was great--it served its purpose well Last Line: As that large bat, the monster bat, the warclub of babe ruth! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Baseball; Sports GREEN DIAMONDS OF SUMMER, by JOE BOLTON Poem Source First Line: What I love in this isn't what you might think Last Line: And then I make dale throw me one more pitch, which I usually miss Subject(s): Baseball; Family Life; Sports HALL OF FAME, by BRUCE GUERNSEY Poem Source First Line: So mantle made it, pop Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Sports HAMLET AGAIN, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: Tis bitter cold and I am sick at heart Last Line: Country they say crazy horse's nostril is the size of a house as he grows %over the plains Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HARDBALL, by RANDY BLASING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After barrel-chested earl torgeson Last Line: Freed me to play the game I'd choose Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HARPER TO MIFFLIN TO CHANCE, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come harper, come schuster, come appleton all Last Line: They'll kiss you goodbye for the first pretty royalty. %comeon, pater Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Baseball; Publishing; Sports HARVEST MOONRISE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: The moon rose out of a cloud in centerfield, gold Last Line: Moon climbing against the quickening %dark Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HITS AND RUNS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the chillicothe ball players grappling the rock Last Line: And the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HITTERS, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Williams ss Last Line: Cobb p Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HITTING AGAINST MIKE CUTLER, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One down. I step into the narrow Last Line: The hornet hisses, vanishes with a bang. Stee-rike! %the catcher grins. Good chuck, good chuck, he c Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HITTING THE CUTOFF, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Into the corner after an extra-base Last Line: As angels fly: %a straight line Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HOME GAME, by DON ALLEN JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Heat lightning silhouettes the hills Last Line: His silver adirondack %stuck into the storm, daring the lightning down Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HOMETOWN, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: Not everyone still has a place from where they've come, so you try to de Last Line: Look at him Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Sports HOMETOWN PIECE FOR MESSRS. ALSTON AND REESE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Millennium,' yes; 'pandemonium!' / roy campanella leaps high. Dodgerdom Subject(s): Baseball; Brooklyn Dodgers (baseball Team); Sports HOMETOWN PIECE FOR MESSRS. ALSTON AND REESE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Millennium,' yes; 'pandemonium!' %roy campanella leaps high. Dodgerdom Last Line: Watching everything you do. You won last year. Come on Subject(s): Baseball; Brooklyn Dodgers (baseball Team); Sports HOW I LEARNED ENGLISH, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was in an empty lot Subject(s): Baseball; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Sports; United States - Race Relations HOW I LEARNED ENGLISH, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was in an empty lot Last Line: Hum baby' sweetly on my lips Subject(s): Baseball; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Sports; U.s. - Race Relations HOW TO PLAY NIGHT BASEBALL, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A pasture is best, freshly Last Line: And routine grounders get lost in %the sweet grass for extra bases Subject(s): Baseball; Sports HUMMER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First he drew a strike zone Last Line: As if he'd tried to hold it %back, but it escaped. Thwap Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Baseball; Sports IDEA OF FLORIDA DURING A WINTER THAW, by GAIL MAZUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Late february and the air's so balmy Last Line: She stretches a hand toward the toothy sleeper %then takes a step back, to be safe as she reaches Subject(s): Baseball; Sports IF A BASEBALL PLAYER DOES HIS JOB CORRECTLY 30 PERCENT OF THE TIME ..., by BOB KING Poem Source First Line: I once heard the best place to sit Last Line: Like children who need their parents to believe for them Subject(s): Baseball; Motion Pictures; Sports IF A.E. HOUSMAN HAD TRIED TO HIT BIG LEAGUE PITCHING, by GENE FEHLER Poem Source First Line: When I was one-and-twenty Subject(s): Baseball; Sports IN ANSON'S TIME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They may have been crude men, and sadly dense, Last Line: In anson's time. Subject(s): Anson, Adrian (cap) (1852-1922); Baseball; Honesty; Ignorance; Sports; Dullness; Stupdity IN CASE YOU THOUGHT THEY PLAYED FOR MONEY, by ROBERT A. FINK Poem Source First Line: Next saturday catch baseball's game of the week Last Line: An apple pie is cooking on the sill, %she's set an extra plate for dinner Subject(s): Baseball; Sports IN MY MEANEST DAYDREAM, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: I am throwing hard again Subject(s): Baseball; Sports IN PERFECT HARMONY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pitcher knows that he could play the field Last Line: And fairly aches to run that baseball club! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Leadership; Sports IN THE BOX, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: A baseball knows %its calculus Last Line: Invisible %and always in the way Subject(s): Baseball; Sports IN THE MIDST OF A LONG BASEBALL STRIKE, G. MCDOUGALD'S DEAFNESS IS LIF, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: After twenty years his hearing paints Last Line: In the body of the first man Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports IN THE SERIES' SIXTH GAME, REGGIE COURTS THE MOON, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Across his chest %reggie felt a ripening of pinstripes Last Line: By self-induced lighting %in a nearby grove Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports INDEPENDENCE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Without %america's %invention there's no baseball, no paychecks Last Line: As if I could catch cancer, %jerked away Subject(s): Baseball; Sports INROAD, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The radiance that is always around us is incited Subject(s): Baseball INSIDE (9), by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: I am standing at home plate watching that fast ball Last Line: Strike three %three %out Subject(s): Baseball; Sports INSTRUCTION, by CONRAD HILLBERRY Poem Source First Line: The coach has taught; her how to swing Last Line: Her fist into her cathcer's mitt, %and stare incredulously at the ump Subject(s): Baseball; Sports JACK CHESBRO, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Jack chesbro, good old hurler, you were a Last Line: It's hard to say it, jack, old friend, but you will get the hook! Subject(s): Aging; Athletes; Baseball; Chesbro, Jack (1874-1931); Sports JACKIE ROBINSON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ran against walls / without breaking Last Line: Entered the conquering dark Subject(s): Baseball; Robinson, Jackie (1919-1972); Sports JACKIE ROBINSON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ran against walls %without breaking Last Line: Over whitestone fences, %entered the conquering dark Subject(s): Baseball; Robinson, Jackie (1919-1972); Sports JACKIE ROBINSON, by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: The uniform and ball Last Line: And jackie robinson negro Subject(s): Baseball; Robinson, Jackie (1919-1972); Sports JAKE DAUBERT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: No finer player ever flashed the spikes Last Line: And waved him outward through the unknown gate! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Daubert, Jake (1884-1924); Death; Sports; Dead, The JIM BOUTON: UNWRITING, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: The gall it took %to drill that peephole you called ball four Last Line: Are again model prisoners Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports JIMMY ALLEN AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, by PAUL MARION Poem Source First Line: The folklore researchers, all ph.D.'s Last Line: Throwing a strike for american folklife Subject(s): Baseball; Scholarship And Scholars; Sports JINX, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the fifth inning Last Line: By accident %almost Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Superstition JOE DIMAGGIO NEVER SWINGS A BAT AT OLD TIMERS' GAMES, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: Staring back from the scoreboard Subject(s): Baseball; Dimaggio, Joseph ("joe"); New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports JOE PASS GUITAR SOLO, by ROBERT ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: I've fallen asleep in the afternoon. It's november and the radio is playing Last Line: Wheeling into fenway park. My father and I look up amazed at the bird-filled june sky Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Williams, Theodore (ted) JOHN MCGRAW, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I'd like to play in old new york, Last Line: "and that's his only law!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Mcgraw, John (1873-1934); New York City; Sports; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple JOSHING, by ALFRED L. WOODS Poem Source First Line: When joe louis knocked out schmeling Last Line: Jackie robinson %can you hit another ball Subject(s): African Americans; Baseball; Boxing And Boxers; Louis, Joe (1914-1981); Robinson, Jackie (1919-1972); Sports; Stock Exchange JUNK BALL, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By the time it gets to the plate Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LAST STANDS, by THOM ROSS Poem Source First Line: Eddie and I took our Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LATE INNINGS, by NEAL BOWERS Poem Source First Line: Bucking and bolting before the hurrying dark Last Line: And the last boy digs in at home with the crickets, %the gathering dew, waiting for the long, dark c Subject(s): Baseball; Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); Sports LETTER TO MANTSCH FROM HAVRE, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mike: we didn't have a chance. Our starter had no change Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LETTER TO MANTSCH FROM HAVRE, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mike: we didn't have a chance. Our starter had no change Last Line: I cannot shout loud as this local truth: well done, mike. Dick Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LIMBO, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Flying %east years ago to my Last Line: Each player, each lover %safe, %home Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LISTENING TO BASEBALL IN THE CAR, by GAIL MAZUR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning I argued with a friend Last Line: The white ball in the glare. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LONELINESS OF THE OUTFIELD, by MICHAEL CULROSS Poem Source First Line: They never liked me Last Line: To finish: their team %somehow managed to %lose it without me Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LONG DISTANCE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Sound %of her voice -- huge, as if I'd put my ear Last Line: Trying to fix on her %and our rookie of the year Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LOOSE LUNATICS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The baseball fan gets up and loudly yowls-- Last Line: He's dippy! Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Baseball; Football; Horse Racing; Sports LOST HEROES, by MICHAEL CULROSS Poem Source First Line: The exhibition at pocatello Last Line: The front office continues to hope %signed contracts for next year will turn up Subject(s): Baseball; Sports LOU, HERE'S TO YOUR JOYRIDE TO THE STADIUM, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: The sunlight heightens %to its own awareness Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports LOVE SONNET OF A PLAYER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Say, kid, d'you know, I just can't understand Last Line: I'll kill three baseball scribes by monday night! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Language; Sports; Words; Vocabulary MANTLE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mantle ran so hard, they said Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Popular Culture - United States; Sports MANTLE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mantle ran so hard, they said Last Line: Now a fastball, now a slow %curve hanging %like a model's smile Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Popular Culture - United States; Sports MARIS AND DYLAN CAME SCOWLING OUT OF HIBBING, MINNESOTA, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: This town boasts the world's largest hole Last Line: In a place just the other side of music Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports MARIS OF THE CARDS, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: At thirty-three, singles lined his forehead Last Line: And his swing slung the hash of happenstance Subject(s): Baseball; Maris, Roger (1934-1985); New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports MAY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now children may Last Line: Look at some baseball / on tv Subject(s): Spring; Baseball MEAN RUFUS THROWN DOWN, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He waits perpetually crouched, teeth Last Line: Swiftly out to second eating the silky %air of the proudest runner, ending the game Subject(s): Baseball; Sports MEANING OF BASEBALL, by MAX GARLAND Poem Source First Line: We sit on the bench like shy freight Last Line: Our couch, as lie on our gurney %counting backwards from ten Subject(s): Baseball; Sports MICKEY, ONCE OUR DAYS MADE THEIR FACE IN YOU, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: The blue veins feeding %us in secret Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports MINOR LEAGUE BUS RIDE TO DUBUQUE, CHATTANOOGA, BLUEFIELD, AMARILLO..., by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Rubber spins on white-lined asphalt Last Line: On a divided highway of youth %and america rolls by Subject(s): Baseball; Sports MISSED INDICATORS, by BOB STANLEY Poem Source First Line: Somewhere in that last season Subject(s): Baseball; Sports MOUSE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Yesterday at batting practice Last Line: And other things to teach - %but not on any fields that I knew of Subject(s): Baseball; Mice; Sports; Warsaw, Poland MUSCLES' HOUGEN COMES OUT OF SOFTBALL RETIREMENT, by JUDITH HOUGEN Poem Source First Line: Years ago, I was so lovely Last Line: Leather hand to reach into that much beauty Subject(s): Baseball; Memory; Sports MY FATHER DREAMS OF BASEBALL, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: On hot september nights, when sleep is scarce Last Line: The features are fixed with the dull metallic glow %of an ancient face, cast in bronze or brass Subject(s): Baseball; Sports MYSTERY BASEBALL, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: No one knows the man who throws out the season's first ball Subject(s): Baseball; Sports NEW WORDS, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Saturday afternoon, alone in the living room Last Line: To my dartboard and took my pleasure. %pimp, I whispered, pimp Subject(s): Baseball; Sports NIGHT GAME, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only bores are bored, --wrote william saroyan Last Line: Alike and different, after the game is over, %streaming away to the exit, and underground Subject(s): Baseball; Sports NIGHT GAME, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of us believe Last Line: He refused to pitch on yom kippur Subject(s): Baseball; Fasts And Feasts; Ford, Edward ("whitey"); Jews; Koufax, Sandy; Sports; Worship; Yom Kippur NIGHT GAME IN MENOMONIE PARK, by SUSAN FIRER Poem Source Last Line: Saint mary of czestochowa throws a small festival, but %oshkosh women's softball - that's a whole ot Subject(s): Baseball; Sports NIGHT GAMES, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: It's hard %to come Last Line: Taking my place in the order Subject(s): Baseball; Sports NIGHT IN CLEVELAND, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Late innings, we're winning %cleveland indians surround Last Line: As voices and syllables %blend in a chorus of boooooos Subject(s): Baseball; Sports NO SECOND PLACE, by BOB STANLEY Poem Source First Line: Just as you remember Subject(s): Baseball; Sports NOBODY'S FAN, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Buck paulson, you were big Last Line: We wouldn't know for years %what you had done Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports NORTH, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Calgary's a jewel %and an appalling place for baseball Last Line: Enough %baseball for one night Subject(s): Baseball; Sports OCTOBER CLASSIC, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If only there were a way of knowing Subject(s): World Series (baseball) ODE TO BEN OGILVIE, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Spied you %in batting practice Last Line: That lethal swing %out of overconfidence Subject(s): Baseball; Ogilvie, Ben; Sports ODE TO DICK HOWSER, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: He wore highway patrol sunglasses Last Line: And always saved %that pat on the back Subject(s): Baseball; Howser, Dick (1937-1987); Sports OF KINGS AND THINGS, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source First Line: What happened to joey on our block Last Line: Disappearing down the street %skinny and shining in the nightfall light Subject(s): Baseball; Sports OKLAHOMA YANKEE, by LOUIS DOMINICK SCALZETTO Poem Source First Line: A budding ballplayer named mickey mantle Last Line: Mickey mantle, the oklahoma yankee %will forever be the american inspiration Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Sports OLD (G)LOVE, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Mushy leather %burnt brown Last Line: And holding you %feels so right Subject(s): Baseball; Sports OLD TIMER'S DAY, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When the tall puffy Subject(s): Baseball; Old Age OLD WARHORSE PITCHING COACH TO YOUNG COLT, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: He said %ya gotta strap it on Last Line: That's what I thought %as I nodded my head Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ON AN EARLY EVENING IN LATE JUNE, ALMOST ANYWHERE, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rock an' fire! Be a hitter! Way to be! Last Line: Haranguing them, driving them into the dust, singing %the only song they know: be. Be Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ON DECK, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: I'm 'in the hole' %as they call it Last Line: The voice of god %bellows my name Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ONE TO NOTHING, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bibulous eagle behind me at the ball game: Last Line: Shucks a'mighty. If you're an eagle, you just go. Subject(s): Baseball; Birds; Eagles; Sports; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism OPENING DAY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Every fan is packed as closely as a neatly packed Last Line: Baseball has been duly started—it's the close of opening day! Subject(s): Baseball; Sports OPENING DAY, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: The event %like the playoffs, all-star game, world series Last Line: In a world of war %between white lines Subject(s): Baseball; Sports ORIGIN OF BASEBALL, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone had been walking in and out Last Line: So he wanted to throw something %and he picked up a baseball Subject(s): Anger; Baseball; Sports OUR HARDY DADS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Our daddies sat upon unpainted planks Last Line: Our daddies must have been the all-wool stuff! Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers; Past; Sports OUT IN LEFT FIELD, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Crack! %the world contracts: a spot of white Last Line: With stitches %to earth, to the raised mound Subject(s): Baseball; Sports OVER THE FENCE IS OUT, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: In home-away- %from-home green Last Line: Three %machine guns trained on me Subject(s): Baseball; Sports PARADISE, by MICHAEL ALAN MCFEE Poem Source First Line: We arrive by shuttle bus, precious tickets Last Line: Into the dry moat behind the outfield wall %that we fill with our cries of joyful disbelief Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Sports PARENTHETICAL STATEMENT FOR THE SEVENTH GAME, by BOBBY BYRD Poem Source First Line: (there is very little poetry ...) Subject(s): Baseball; Sports PAT MORAN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He lived the game-to him 'twas all; yet he Last Line: The game is better for the part he bore. Subject(s): Baseball; Leadership; Moran, Pat (1876-1924); Sports PAUL O'NEILL, DESCENDANT OF MARK TWAIN, STARTS US DOWN THE WIDE RIVER, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: With that whimsical lift of his right foot Last Line: Five daggers of an unleashed star Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE CURVEBALL, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It came to us like sex Last Line: Or the strikeout victim have %to mean what cannot be and means what is? Subject(s): Baseball; Sports PHARAOH, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The future aint what it used to be Last Line: Water, a book and a pen Subject(s): Baseball PIONEER LEAGUE, BUTTE V. POCATELLO, by FORD SWETNAM Poem Source First Line: Fertilizer plants in their summer layoff Last Line: We have another chance to catch the runner Subject(s): Baseball; Sports PITCHER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: His art is eccentricity, his aim Subject(s): Baseball; Language; Men; Sports; Words; Vocabulary PITCHER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His art is eccentricity, his aim Last Line: Not to, yet still, still to communicate %making the batter understand too late Subject(s): Baseball; Language; Men; Sports PITCHER IS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN AN OLD MOVIE, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: Who batting could not hit their own weight Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports PITCHER'S JUICE, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Adrenaline and blood flow, mix Last Line: Frustrated %frozen in his work Subject(s): Baseball; Sports PITCHING COUPS, by RON WELBURN Poem Source First Line: The arc of the pitching arm %unwinds a circle of dreams Last Line: Pitchers all. %coyotes too. %'skins Subject(s): Baseball; Sports PITTSBURGH, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: It's fifteen years since pittsburgh town Last Line: They'll realize their dream! Subject(s): Baseball; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Sports; Victory PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the front yard, my father and his son Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Baseball PLAY BALL!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Flags dance, bands bray, the gates are thrown ajar; Last Line: "to that one crashing chorus of ""play ball!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports PLAYERS, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When mickey mantle died Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Sports PLAYERS, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When mickey mantle died Last Line: Projects so many could %not escape Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Sports POEM FOR ED WHITEY FORD, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted my name %curt: ed %ford: a name that gave away Last Line: Empty, cruel, accurate. %our beauty pure expertise Subject(s): Baseball; Ford, Edward ("whitey"); Sports POEM FOR MY FATHER, by QUINCY TROUPE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father, it was an honor to be there, in the dugout Last Line: Father, a harbinger, of shock waves, soon come Subject(s): African Americans; Baseball; Fathers & Sons; Sports; Negroes; American Blacks POEM FOR THE 1985 SEASON OF DOUBLE A BALL ..., by BOBBY BYRD Poem Source First Line: Last night I saw mike cuellar Subject(s): Baseball; Sports POETS' CORNER, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: They put me in right field Last Line: Little priss, some kind %of percy bitch shelby Subject(s): Baseball; Memory; Sports POLO GROUNDS, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time is of the essence. This is a highly skilled Subject(s): Baseball; Sports POP, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Issue of my miraculous news Last Line: You're never %too young, either Subject(s): Baseball; Sports POP, POP, POP!, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Pop goes the pop fly Last Line: Pop, pop, pop! Subject(s): Baseball; Drinks & Drinking; Sound; Sports; Wine POST CARD OUT OF PANAMA, by WILLIAM D. BARNEY Poem Source First Line: The young man at the plate, bat bristling Last Line: With every sinew, bone and cell alive-- %my father was exceedingly rich Subject(s): Baseball; Sports PROMETHEUS AT FENWAY, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Carl yastrzemski, the boston red sox outfielder/first Last Line: Running the turf of our years Subject(s): Baseball; Fenway Park, Boston; Mythology - Classical; Sports Q&A, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: He asked %microphone in hand Last Line: I realized %my daddy said a lot of things Subject(s): Baseball; Sports QUITE FREQUENTLY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The manager, with stony glare, Last Line: The ozone green and blue! Subject(s): Baseball; Leadership; Sports RADIO WONDERS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The sacks were full, the babe was up-- Last Line: Be planted out in mars! Subject(s): Baseball; Ruth, George Herman (babe) (1895-1948); Sports RAIN DELAY, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: In the box seats %the bright, laughing umbrellas are smug Last Line: Decks of cards with rainy %bad-weather hearts Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports RAVENS, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: We do wind sprints, we play catch Last Line: All right, all the way to moscow boom boom %and landing on lenin's tomb Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Warsaw, Poland RELIEF PITCHING, by TED FLOREA Poem Source First Line: Because his dad was coach Last Line: My dreams too wild %to say out loud Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers And Sons; Sports REVISITING THE FIELD (2), by WALTER DAVID PAVLICH Poem Source First Line: I come back to cold lights Last Line: Didn't we all block big as trees? Subject(s): Baseball; Fields; Memory; Sports RING LARDNER WATCHES THE BABE TAKE BATTING PRACTICE, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Oh how his flesh of plenty Last Line: The envious hearts of angels Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports RIVALS, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: In scattered dodger neats Last Line: More so than when they played Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports ROGER MARIS, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: In 1961, when j.F.K. Brought his dazzling wife Last Line: And tried with their might to hold him up Subject(s): Baseball; Maris, Roger (1934-1985); New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports ROUNDHOUSE VOICES, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In full glare of sunlight I came here, man-tall but thin Last Line: On my knees to cry, who the hell are you, kid Subject(s): Baseball; Railroads; Sports RUSS JOY LITTLE LEAGUE, by DOUGLAS CARLSON Poem Source First Line: God help me, liberal mothers Last Line: To a jetty where we sit growing older, %not competing with fish we never catch Subject(s): Baseball; Sports RYNE DUREN, YANKEE RELIEVER, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: As a nation sleeping under ike Last Line: A whole decade nobody saw Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports S.E., by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She passes up and down life's various ways Last Line: Makes her more precious and more wise and dear. Subject(s): Baseball; Mothers; Sports SACRIFICE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: It was like a kamikaze Last Line: I ain't that stupid Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SAL MAGLIE, by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: Time grew upon his beard Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SANDLOT BASEBALL, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eye is fine: halfway through they're double-teaming me Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Baseball SATAN VOWS TO MAKE A COMEBACK, by PHILIP WEDGE Poem Source First Line: Yeah, they're sending me down to the lowest Last Line: The union won't stand for less than equal %shares all round.Man, I'm talking equity Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SEASON WISH, by LINDA MIZEJEWSKI Poem Source First Line: In turns of season Last Line: Built for me stone bases %on his knees there in the dirt Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SELF-PORTRAIT WITH 1911 NY YANKEES CAP, by FLOYD SKLOOT Poem Source First Line: The subtlest approach would be to ignore Last Line: I was wearing gives me a new idea %which, as I turn to note it, I forget. Subject(s): Baseball; Physical Disabilities; Sports SEPTEMBER IN THE BLEACHERS, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: In the bathroom the bad dudes Last Line: He goes right ahead & does it before my eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SHERWOOD MCGEE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Dusk was approaching, when the lengthy game Last Line: Such matchless doings by one s. Magee! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports SIGN FOR MY FATHER, WHO STRESSED THE BUNT, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the rough diamond Last Line: I'm getting a grip on the sacrifice. Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers; Selflessness; Sports SLIDE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Level %as the field Last Line: By blood, relieved by dirt Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SOMETIMES THE YANKEES LOVE US BACK, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: All the world's %pain with him Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports SONG BIRD OF THE SPRING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: You make talk about your bobolinks, and the Last Line: But the umpire is the bird of birds, the song-bird of the spring! Subject(s): Baseball; Birds; Sports; Spring SPEAKING IN TONGUES, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: In a light just right Last Line: And my guys are trying hard to catch %the lingo and the rhythm Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SPITBALLER, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A poet because his hand goes first Last Line: He draws a second salary as maintenance man. %since while he pitches he waters the lawn Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SPRING, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Even the grass is yearning Last Line: Where birds don't sing Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SPRING FEVER, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: My right shoulder aches when snow melts, %air softens, and baseballs Last Line: Citizen, old ballplayer that I am, I walk %my aching shoulder home Subject(s): Balls; Baseball; Boys; Sports; Youth SPRING PLOWING, 1965, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: The game of the week calls Last Line: His voice crackling %among the ruins Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports SPRING TRAINING DREAM, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Under the gray blanket of cold Last Line: Spinning with raised seams cutting through air Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SQUIRE EBBETS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He gave the game all that he had--the game Last Line: "when will we see one like ""the squire"" again?" Subject(s): Baseball; Sports STADIUM, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stadium is filled, %for this is the third night the moon Last Line: Would weep softly in the dark aisles, %catching their difficult breath Subject(s): Baseball; Sports STELAE, by JOHN OLIVER SIMON Poem Source First Line: There are stelae from palenque Subject(s): Baseball; Sports STEPPING DOWN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Going out of the big league Last Line: I am not yet thirty-three! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports; Success STICKBALL AT CHARLESTOWN HIGH, by CHARLES FANNING Poem Source First Line: The scoring is easy Last Line: There is no traffic %and the kids are safe. %today is sunday Subject(s): Baseball; Sports STOLEN BASES, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: I run the northern-prairie, small-town blocks Last Line: The half hour after I run, coming down, coming down Subject(s): Balls; Baseball; Boys; Sports STRIKE ZONE, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the presidency its size Last Line: But gives no sign. %ball 3 Subject(s): Baseball; Sports STRIKING OUT MY SON IN THE FATHER-SON GAME, by RON SMITH Poem Source First Line: Caught in the open in broad daylight Subject(s): Baseball; Sports STUTTERING UMPIRE, by ROBERT KIRKLAND KERNINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Oh, we had our share of trouble Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SUICIDE, by JUDY GOLDMAN Poem Source First Line: The newspaper lied. %they did not find you Last Line: As if there were nothing at all %left to explain Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SWINGING ON THE FIRST PITCH, by DABNEY STUART Poem Source First Line: You go up there cocked Last Line: Delivers. It's a fast ball, %big as a globe, 110 %miles an hour, coming %right at your head Subject(s): Baseball; Sports SWITCH HITTER, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: I miss pitching so much %don't miss it at all, sick of it Last Line: I've seen enough, heard enough %wonder who they're playing tonight? Subject(s): Baseball; Sports TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME, by JACK NORWOOD Poem Source First Line: Nelly kelly loved baseball games Last Line: At the old ball game Subject(s): Baseball; Sports TAO IN THE YANKEE STADIUM BLEACHERS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Distance brings proportion. From here Last Line: Hold motionless while berra flies to left Subject(s): Baseball; Chinese Literature; Sports TAO IN THE YANKEE STADIUM BLEACHERS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Distance brings proportion. From here Last Line: And, distant as a paradise, experts, passionate and deft, %wait while berra flies to left Subject(s): Baseball; Chinese Literature; Sports TEACHING THE SLIDER, by J.T. BARBARESE Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of life's road, which I notice Subject(s): Baseball TELEPATHY, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: Skip scampers out %reaches me at the hill Last Line: To his pillbox %safe from the line of fire Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THE AMATEUR, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He doesn't play the game for glory Last Line: Won't even know what it is all about! Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Ignorance; Man-woman Relationships; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Dullness; Stupdity; Male-female Relations THE BALL GAME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The one damn time (7th inning) Subject(s): Baseball THE BASE STEALER, by ROBERT FRANCIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poised between going on and back, pulled Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THE BASEBALL PLAYERS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Against the bright Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THE BIG GAME--HERE AND OVER THERE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Stands are packed and bleachers crowded Last Line: "shall call ""safe"" ere evening falls!" Variant Title(s): The Big Game-here And Over There Subject(s): Baseball; Soldiers; Sports; War; World War I; First World War THE BOY ON FIRST, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me, folks, if I am proud Last Line: Your dad is proud of every day. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THE BOYS OF SUMMER, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carlton, patrick and I Subject(s): Baseball THE BULLPEN PITCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The beaver and the busy bee Last Line: A bullpen pitcher—that is all! Subject(s): Baseball; Labor & Laborers; Sports; Work; Workers THE CATCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Like a rhinoceros, in style and grace Last Line: And he holds on—the mainstay of the team! Variant Title(s): The Old Catcher Subject(s): Aging; Athletes; Baseball; Sports THE CHAMPION'S BAT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Heavy and thick and long Last Line: Where is the champion now? Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports THE COMEBACK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He made a rep in the minors, and he thought Last Line: "(and it's cost you a lot of money) that at last you are wanting me!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Conceit; Money; Sports THE DEACON, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The deacon wandered forth one day and saw a Last Line: He now stands for good, clean ball games, even on the sabbath day! Subject(s): Baseball; Clergy; Sabbath; Sports; Temptation; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Sunday THE DUMB BELLE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: What cares the dumb belle for the baseball game? Last Line: And yet, you simp, you'll take her there again! Subject(s): Baseball; Ignorance; Sports; Women; Dullness; Stupdity THE FAN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He's out there, freezing on the chilly bleachers Last Line: Where would be this good old game of ball? Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Sports - Arenas And Stadia THE FAN BLUES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They say that the winter is gentle and mild Last Line: Oh, misery! Subject(s): Baseball; Grief; Sports; Sorrow; Sadness THE HUMMER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First he drew a strike zone Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THE LOSING HABIT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: When you get the losing habit, it is hard, so Last Line: When that losing habit lingers grimly by your side! Subject(s): Baseball; Habits; Sports THE MANAGER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: When all goes wrong, and when your dear old club Last Line: To give the manager your loud applause? Subject(s): Baseball; Leadership; Sports THE NIGHT GAME, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of us believe Subject(s): Baseball; Fasts & Feasts; Ford, Edward ('whitey'); Jews; Koufax, Sandy; Sports; Worship; Yom Kippur; Judaism THE NO-HIT GAME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Round after round they were falling, nobody Last Line: "yet they kept on repeating, ""that bird ain't got a darned thing!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports THE OFFICIAL SCORER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He sits down in the press-box, knowing well Last Line: Is general derision and the razz! Subject(s): Anger; Baseball; Labor & Laborers; Sports; Work; Workers THE OLD CATCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The aged catcher dons his mask- Last Line: The backbone of the team! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Old Age; Sports THE OLD PITCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He hobbles lamely from the bench Last Line: Those boys with iron hand! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Knowledge; Old Age; Sports THE OLD-TIMER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Show me a catcher like ewing-- Last Line: "about ""the advance of the game""!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports; Success THE ORIGIN OF BASEBALL, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone had been walking in and out Subject(s): Anger; Baseball; Sports THE PITCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pitcher stands upon the hill, his pose is won- Last Line: "aw take him out! For mikes' sake, take him out!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Failure; Sports THE ROUNDHOUSE VOICES, by DAVE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In full glare of sunlight I came here, man-tall but thin Subject(s): Baseball; Railroads; Sports; Railways; Trains THE RUBAIYAT OF BASEBALL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The spring approaches, and each eager fan Last Line: "the season's coming—""and the game's still there!" Variant Title(s): The Rubaiyat Of Battle Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THE SCOUT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He ranges in the little, scrubby circuits Last Line: And he does that—he fires the luckless scout! Subject(s): Baseball; Scouting & Scouts; Sports THE SOUTHPAW, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They kid him and they razz him, and the fans Last Line: And yet—somehow—the southpaws often win! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Sports THE STADIUM, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stadium is filled, / for this is the third night the moon Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRLS AND HANDSOME KEVIN MAAS, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Before he drives the ball Last Line: When he turns on a pitch Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports THIS MIGHT BE HITTING THE BASEBALL, by STEVEN REESE Poem Source First Line: Of course there's the brain's play-by-play Last Line: Spending the night - some twist or turn %that meant everything Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THURMAN DREAMING IN RIGHT FIELD, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In right field I am so far out Last Line: In that far field where %I am dreaaming once again Subject(s): Baseball; Sports THURMAN MUNSON, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Get me out of here, you said Last Line: Get me out of here, please Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports THURMAN'S SLUMPING BLUES, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One day out in right field Last Line: The paper tells me that %this is last place Subject(s): Baseball; Sports TIME TO QUIT, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: I'm warmin up in san francisco Last Line: A shower %and a quick flight home Subject(s): Baseball; Sports TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: No more he walks across the field Last Line: When he comes home again! Subject(s): Alexander, Grover Cleveland (1887-1950); Athletes; Baseball; Soldiers; Sports; World War I; First World War TO BERT CAMPANERIS, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: You've had your problems Last Line: How good you know english %fon't count for everything Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Baseball; Sports TO COMFORT CATCHERS OF THE KNUCKLEBALL, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Yes, there's a moment before the knuckler Last Line: And the mind itself floats and twists Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports TO MATTINGLY IN THE SHADOW OF HIS AILING BACK, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: Dark notes in the cheering now Last Line: Leading fans through the deep, rich woods of your bat Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports TO OUR CAPTAIN (ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN ANSON), by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They have waited--waited yonder for their captain of the past Last Line: Such was the towering commander—such was the captain we knew! Subject(s): Anson, Adrian (cap) (1852-1922); Baseball; Leadership; Past; Sports TO SATCH, by SAMUEL ALLEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I feel like I will never stop Alternate Author Name(s): Vesey, Paul Subject(s): Paige, Stachel (1906-1982); Baseball TOO MUCH COUE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pitcher stood upon the mound Last Line: And then the maddened umpire spoke—and gave them both the gate! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Failure; Sports TOOLS OF A SCHOLAR, by LOUIS DOMINICK SCALZETTO Poem Source First Line: Bronx bomber bill dickey Last Line: You can vision bill dickey and his tools of a scholar Subject(s): Baseball; Sports TOOLS OF CONTENTION, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: In winter I'd find whitey ford's curve Last Line: With my finger traced their very backbones Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports TRYING TO CATCH UP, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: I'm coaching the warsaw baseball team Last Line: And throwing - ok, strong as bulls - %but looking as if they're about to fall over Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Warsaw, Poland TWO YEARS RETIRED, BOBBY MURCER MAKES A COMEBACK BID, 1985, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: After your ascent into the Last Line: As you dream back your speed, %run faster then you can run Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports TYRONE (3), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The governor has sent out Last Line: And if we buffalo soldiers was sports fans %we sure would cheer Subject(s): Baseball; Robinson, Jackie (1919-1972); Sports UMPIRE, by WALKER GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Everyone knows he's blind as a bat Last Line: People like to watch baseball games, %where things are not to be confused with names Subject(s): Baseball; Sports VERS LIBRE OF BASEBALL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The veteran stands forth and swings a bat Last Line: "get outa here!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Competition; Sports VOCATIONS, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: My attorney said %'we've gotta get you a job' Last Line: I don't think well with a suit on Subject(s): Baseball; Retirement; Sports WALTER JOHNSON, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He may not have the arm of old-- Last Line: It's still darned hard to hit him! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Johnson, Walter (1887-1946); Sports WAR AGAINST BABE RUTH, by STEVEN GOLDLEAF Poem Source First Line: The elegant japanese general listens to his infantry Subject(s): Baseball; Sports WASTED ENERGY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The new-come pitcher, tall and strong Last Line: That he was deaf and dumb! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Deafness; Sports WATCH ME SWING, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was the fifth man hired Last Line: Yelling, 'watch me swing, boss, %watch me swing' Subject(s): Baseball; Hispanic Americans; Sports; Welfare WATCHFUL WAITING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Nothing to do but sit around-- Last Line: Muster their clans in the south! Subject(s): Baseball; Longing; Sports; Waiting; Winter WE MILDLY WONDER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes we wonder why the timely hit Last Line: —omar kayenne. Subject(s): Baseball; Sports WHEN FATHER PLAYED BASEBALL, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smell of arnica is strong Last Line: The day he played baseball. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Baseball; Fathers & Sons; Sports WHEN I WAS A KID, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source First Line: I played outfield %in the stickball games Last Line: No smiling white mustaches, %no happy red face Subject(s): Baseball; Sports WHEN IT IS OVER GOD SLIPS A FINGER INTO THE MIDDLE OF YANKEE ST., by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: We become %heartbeats in god Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports WHEN THAT SPIRAL AT THE FINISH, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: Off the ladder of his bones Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports WHEN THE BABE STORMED NEW YORK, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: The snows burned brighter Last Line: In a hundred years Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Ruth, George Herman (babe) (1895-1948); Sports WHICH ONE ARE YOU?, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The pessimist sits glumly in the stand Last Line: And, if we don't—we'll surely win to-morrow! Subject(s): Baseball; Hope; Pain; Pessimism; Sports; Optimism; Suffering; Misery WHO'S ON FIRST, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source Last Line: In the web of his mitt Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports WHY BALLPLAYERS SPIT SO MUCH, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: On the close-up instant Last Line: To land %hard %in dust Subject(s): Baseball; Sports WILL YOU SIGN MY BRAND-NEW BASEBALL, LOUIE?, by DAVID ALLAN EVANS Poem Source First Line: The best thing in my head Last Line: Fans cheer and cheer and %cheer for both of their heroes Subject(s): Baseball; Sports WILLY SMITH AT THE BALL GAME, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Happy, he heard the crass brass band Subject(s): Baseball; Sports WITCH BASEBALL, by STEVEN KROLL Poem Source First Line: The game's the same Last Line: After each inning %the witches go swimming Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; Witchcraft And Witches WITHOUT YOU, LOVE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Without you, love, my life is but a void-- Last Line: Since I broke you in two, my favorite bat! Subject(s): Baseball; Love - Materialism; Sports WOMEN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: If you take them to the ball game Last Line: The contradictory fish! Subject(s): Baseball; Contrariness; Man-woman Relationships; Sports; Women; Male-female Relations WORLD SERIES, by EILEEN B. HENNESSY Poem Source First Line: By then the war had been over for three years, and the men were Last Line: Got free of its skin. Then I heard the fans on the radio roar. I heard the %announcer say, 'that's I Subject(s): Baseball; Memory; Sports WORLD SERIES BLUES, by NEAL BOWERS Poem Source First Line: Summer always looks good in spring training Last Line: In crisp, white uniforms to take the field, %ready to play hardball Subject(s): Baseball; Sports WORLD SERIES, 1968, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's friend angie from work Last Line: The world series, the world series ... %but I was still cold Subject(s): Baseball; Sports YANKEES BEND TO THE COOL, CLEAR WATER OF MIRRORS, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: In the old days mirrors were wild Last Line: They are calling it mother Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports YOGI, THOUGH YOU'RE NO ONE-EYED HUNCHBACK, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: At the plate sometimes, your pendulum, a club Last Line: Dressed in the dust of this world Subject(s): Baseball; Berra, Laurence (yogi); New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports YOUR STREAK'S GENEROUS NATURE, by RODNEY TORRESON Poem Source First Line: How it keeps the foul lines crying Last Line: And perching at our door Subject(s): Baseball; New York Yankees (baseball Team); Sports |
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