by Dan Campion
The ancients had three Fates, three Graces;
Past home plate there are three bases.
Nine muses trace ends and beginnings;
A regulation game’s nine innings.
Baseball follows Greece and Rome
In cheering heroes bound for Home.
The mound’s Olympus, press box Fame.
No wonder it’s a Classic game.
Dan is the author of Peter De Vries and Surrealism and coeditor of Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song and contributor of poetry to many magazines. The title, by the way, spells “Baseball”, at least according to Google Translate.