MLB All-Easter Team

by Stuart Shea

1B Luke Easter
2B Rabbit Warstler
SS Rabbit Maranville
3B Rabbit Nill

OF Dave Eggler
OF Jim Lentine
OF Ben Paschal

C  Max Pentecost

P Jamie Easterly
P  Bunny Hearn

PH  Jim Gentile, Bunny Brief

MGR  Mack Eggleston

Go, Tony, Go

by Stuart Shea

It’s been a rough stretch for the Pale Hose,
A title expected by friends and foes.
The thing to do, fast,
Is to write off the past
And send off Big T for a nice doze.

 

September Baseball

By Stuart Shea

There is no clock.
The games could last forever,
Even as September suns sink sooner every day.
This is suspended-animation baseball time.

If a team is 30 out, and nobody watches,
Did the game even happen?
Maybe only in your mind,
But this is the best place for a baseball game anyway.

Cups of coffee and last gasps,
Careers come and go in a flash,
Before the eyes of the true devotees,
Miles from a pennant race.

.

Originally posted 9/28/2009

Red Barber in the Bowl

by Stuart Shea

From the Cincinnati Times-Star, 1937, on announcer Red Barber’s consistent hawking of Wheaties cereal:

Red Barber has charm and he shows it,
And over the air he sure throws it–
But with all his entreaties
To munch those damned Wheaties
He eats ham and eggs and he knows it!

 

Is It On–Is It Off?

by Stuart Shea

As of now, it’s later, but not never.
As of tomorrow, will it be soon, if ever?

Last week, it was yes, then maybe…
For dinner, who’d get the gravy?

But now, knives are sheathed,
A 60-game season bequeathed–

For now.

But even if there’s no game
Because of this global virus,

It’s nice that players and owners
Aren’t snarling and fighting like Tyrus.