Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel
by Doug Fahrendorff
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Not only in Dyersville but
Anywhere baseball is played
Is a field of dreams
A cornfield
From which heroes
Emerge and disappear at will
May not border every outfield
Dreams are not that different
In heaven
Or Iowa
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According to USA Today, the “Field of Dreams” in Dyersville, Iowa, is up for sale.
Posted 5/20/2010
by Sid Yiddish
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in Denmark,
they play no baseball
no concept of it at all
just Yankee caps
and Red Sox fans
hidden inside the homes
among the fruited plains
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Posted 5/19/2010
by James Finn Garner
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Dear Alfonso, I cannot lie.
You know I’m not that kind of guy.
For I have always had your back,
Even as you whiffed and hacked.
When you swung lumber like a mop
Or broke your foot with your little hop,
I defended you — I DID! —
Saying, “Let the kid just be a kid.”
All the rest demanded skin
But I stood by through thick and thin.
I’ve always been your biggest fan —
But don’t f#@& up like that again!
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Posted 5/14/2010
By Hart Seely
Hot beneath the raging sun,
Running in his cheap suit blazer,
Trigger-happy with his gun,
Philly ballpark guard – with taser.
Rumbling like a rented van,
Aiming carefully his laser,
Firing on some hapless fan,
Philly ballpark guard – with taser.
Creepo at the junior prom,
Sicko wielding rusted razor,
Castro with a nuclear bomb,
Philly ballpark guard – with taser.
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Posted 5/11/10
By Stuart Shea
They live and die by the weather in this town.
It’s headline stuff when the snow starts coming down.
But still I didn’t expect the thing I viewed:
That a rainout made the top of the evening news.
Posted 5/9/10