by Stuart Shea
Here’s something that freaks me
More than just slightly—
Bob Uecker is ninety!
At an age when few people
Are vivid or lively,
Bob Uecker is ninety!
“I must be in the front rooooow…”
“Polish Baseball Power”
by Sig Sakowicz
Sig Sakowicz (1924-2004) was a legendary Chicago TV and radio personality who wore his own Polish heritage on his sleeve. He hosted a show on WGN from 1954 to 1971 and then became a TV celebrity in Las Vegas. This piece – in which Sig recounted every Polish-American to don a baseball uniform, up to the point of this record (1970) – gained such fame that in 1980 the Baseball Hall of Fame requested a copy to be displayed in Cooperstown. It was written by Al Trace and produced by Gordon Wagner for the Mishawaka, IN-based Mishawaka label.
On Every Channel
by Fred Lovato
Shohei and Babe Ruth
comparisons never end
daily TV fare
Fred Lovato is Bardball’s Okinawa correspondent.
The Shakespearean Baseball Game
by Wayne and Shuster
Happy 460th birthday, Willie Bard!
A Yogi Poem
by Ralph Badagliacca
Shakespeare shaped the language.
Some say he invented it.
Wilde and Shaw spun expressions of unrelenting wit.
Whitman taught the mother tongue
How to sing for us;
Yeats scaled the beauty of her lonely peaks.
Joyce uncovered something new,
And so did Eliot.
But unlike Yogi, none of them could hit.
Taken from Ralph’s book, The Yogi Poems, available here.Â