by Hilary Barta
An infield that played like a dream
Three winners that made a great team
Now last-minute trades
But the past never fades
They’ll live out their days in esteem.
Limericist and comic-book artist extraordinaire Hilary Barta has a Patreon page explaining his art and artistic process. To help support his obsession with giant gooey monsters, click here!
Baez hasn t become a scientific hitter or anything this season, but his power has suffered less than others with the new baseball. The OBP has recovered to acceptably brutal along with his BABIP, leaving Baez a path to stardom even while making a giant boatload of outs. Optimism has finally returned! Not quite to the pre-2020 valuation, mind you, but this Baez is one you can see a team in the right situation going over $200 million, at least if you gave ZiPS access to a Scrooge McDuck-esque vault of gold coins. His health, ability to play a solid shortstop, and that extra advantage from being a year younger gives him the edge over Bryant in the long-term projections.
Cubs fan here. Loving your poems! Whoa. this is incredible how when I type in the comments box, the font is some sort of square serif. Feels so bold and strong as I type. Google Developer Tools tells me that the font is “Bevan”.
I discovered your work in an somewhat interesting way. I have an eBay search saved for: “verse” trading cards. The idea of the search is to find baseball cards with Bible verse inscriptions on them. But then lo and behold, the search results popped up an eBay auction for your 2014 book, “Bardball.com 2014’s Greatest Hits Baseball Prose & Poetry Book”
A whole different type of verse associated with baseball!
My goodness, this site has posts going back to 2007. How did this delightful corner of the internet escape me? I’m digging into the Cubs archives during 2016. Wow. This is just amazing.
Ok, so I produce crazy custom scorecards. I did a set for Chicago magazine for the 2016 World Series. Lots of trivia, drawings, commentary all packed into a scorecard. NOW, this site is inspiring me to write poetry and put that into the scorecards too!
Oh, today just got brighter by discovering the bardball.com website!
Hey, Matt, your email made my day. Bardball has been plugging along, ever since friends began sharing limericks about Barry Bonds’ augmented body back in 2007. Some of our stuff I’m very proud of, some of it, meh, but that’s the nature of doggerel. We do NOT traffic in poems about playing catch with Dad. We prefer poems about the daily games, the injuries, the busts and Mr. Met flipping off fans at Citifield. Hope to hear more from you in the future! And tell your friends!