by Michael Ceraolo
Having served in a real war,
I will never refer to any sport as war
as those who never served are wont to do
But baseball was, and is, a business,
and I treated it as such on the field and off
during my playing days and afterward,
and I didn’t apologize for doing so,
for which I received much criticism
The goal of business is to beat your competition,
within the law if possible
And we did beat them in ’48,
though we used a telescope to steal signs
Forget Chief Wahoo:
the sign-stealing is the reason
the Indians haven’t won a World Series since
But we won then,
and I won’t apologize for that either
