Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel
Sure ’nuff baseball starts
fan-world balanced on
a new season
by game beer brats
The season-to-be first
pumped by fist
then applause dismays
& maybe applause again
The moments/the pitches
the at-bats & skewed recoveries
brilliant plays or errors by inches
or a bunt called fair
Anticipate whatever
moments of baseball & history long
a long time is April-October
& a baseball song
by P Douglas K
sssssssSSSSSSSSSPOP
wow, this guy wants to win
he singed the hairs
on my chinny chin chin
The manager’s pissed
gives me the sign
hang in there bunky
the next one’s 99
cork, string, and leather,
but mostly love makes me soar —
I am the horsehide
Barbara Gregorich writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She is the author of She’s on First and also of Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball.
The infinite
possibilities
of spring
become the first
accomplished fact
of summer.
By Stuart Shea
BALTIMORE ORIOLES
Talented groundhogs
Trying to burrow through a
two-layer brick wall.
BOSTON RED SOX
Deep at every spot.
Not young at any of them,
Must win now or else.
NEW YORK YANKEES
E. Chavez is “back”!
Well, that’s a strange way to say
That he feels “healthy.”
TAMPA BAY RAYS
Damon? Ramirez?
It all depends what kind of
leadership you want.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS
Latinos can get
Good job opportunities
North of the border.