Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel
In an unlikely baseball brawl
Bryce Harper took on a wall.
.     The slugger got flattened
.      so can’t someone patent
A fence that won’t cause a great fall?
Michael X. Ferraro is the co-author of Numbelievable: The Dramatic Stories Behind the Most Memorable Numbers in Sports History,
 available at Amazon.
The Nats have a slugger named Bryce
whose tummy felt not very nice.
.     Still he stayed in the game
.     and four knocks gained him fame
since he upchucked once more than thrice!
BRAVES
Georgia is the world’s
Top pecan supplier. Plus
Andrelton Simmons
MARLINS
Why is a fish tank
So fascinating to watch?
Billion-dollar chum.
METS
No, it’s not a joke!
Cowgill and Valdespin are
In center field now
NATIONALS
Unnatural arm,
Unbelieveable results–
Can Strasburg stay fit?
PHILLIES
The old and infirm
Are the last to know that they
Are old and infirm
There is nothing to speak of, so far
Except, maybe, mega-contracts, buying the World Series
and demonic trades, and key pre-season injuries
The Yankees are back with battered fixations
The Marlins are simply trade-and-bait
The Nationals are openly trepadacious
The Phillies are, well, on the clock
San Francisco, so far, is blowing smoke
Los Angeles is spending its bank
. . . and the list goes on
Summertime passion is now full-time
obsession and has little to do with “the game”
Steven Strasburg is the news,
Everybody’s giving views
About his shutdown, good or bad,
So many writers seem so mad!
If he was all the Nats could boast,
Then Washington would look like toast.
But they’ve a very sweet bullpen,
Plus Gio, Detwiler and Zimmerman.