Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel
Shades of Stu Miller
Candlestick wind
Rippling hope and doubt
Both Scherzer and Wood
Toe to toe
Arm to arm
Right to left
Like Ali-Frazier
Foreman-Ali
A knockout blow
Blowin’ in the wind
Scherzo sonata
Longoria’s aria
Echo of Game 162
Heroes sung and unsung
Singing alive alive oh
One to nothing
This one’s for you
Willie and the vets
Saved by Doval
Cool as a dove
Giants win
Dodgers lose
Lux chapfallen
Freeze-frame it
It’s a wrap
Logan Webb fumbled once with his hand
Yet the rest of his night was outstand.
Buster barrelled Bueller
Kapler’s crew was cooler
and the Dodgers got straight up San Franned.
Michael X. Ferraro is the author of CIRCUS CATCH and TASED & AMUSED: The Shocking Poetic Recap of the 2010 MLB Season.
Pitch me, says the movie mogul.
Walk-off homer, I nervously gargle.
Bah, been done before. New twist?
Actually rare? But I get your gist…
Come-from-behind Cinderella tale?
More like a team that shouldn’t fail.
Scrappy underdogs? Ragtag bunch?
Favorites from way back in March…
So who’s next up? These “Giant” guys.
That squad can actually surprise.
It’s a mess! Disaster! Optics all wrong!
Not if framed like: Godzilla vs. Kong.
Okay, green light! You’re in luck,
But you’ll need star power–get that Joe Buck.
Herman Franks
We stole signs from the Germans and the Japanese,
and it wasn’t wrong for us to do so
While baseball isn’t life or death,
winning instead of losing is part of our way of life,
so it wasn’t wrong to steal signs in ’51
When Leo suggested it,
and Hank Schenz volunteered his telescope,
I was happy to be the spy relaying the signs
And if that could always assure victory,
we would have won a pennant or two
doing it while I was managing San Francisco,
instead of finishing second four years in a row
Bobby Thomson
Because of the way I was raised,
I struggled for years to justify what we were doing
I finally realized that,
even if you knew what pitch was coming,
you still had to hit it squarely,
and I deserved credit for doing so
Ralph Branca
I was among those taunting the Giants
earlier in the season, so some might say
I got a deserved comeuppance
in giving up the homer to Bobby;
I don’t think so, because of the spy
Bobby got more credit than he deserved
and I got more blame that I deserved
We’ll be linked as long as baseball is played,
and I’m at peace with my role in the drama
If rooting for the Yankees
Was like rooting for GM
Back when rabbit ears on TVs were a must
Then rooting for the Dodgers
And their pricey diamond gems
Prob’ly feels like rooting for Disney Plus.