Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel
by Stuart Shea
PHILLIES
Some defending champs
Next spring find their magic dust
Doesn’t work so well.
METS
Many suns have set
Since Pedro Martinez could
Throw over 90.
MARLINS
Buy season tickets!
We’ll throw in a free car wash
By Marlins players.
BRAVES
No Smoltz, No Maddux
Only Glavine left to fly
Their once-proud banner.
NATIONALS
Jim Bowden’s mission:
To leave behind a steaming pile
On Anacostia’s banks.
Posted 3/18/09
by Todd Herges
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A pandemic bloom,
TuBercular Rays are tough
To eradicate.
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Posted 10/20/08
Black Polacks/Negro
Stars play on Hamtramck green.
Dodge Main belches soot.
For more on the Detroit Stars, go here.
Posted 5/16/08
By Gary Gillette
Winter Meetings blues.
Gray twi-nighter — Disney sucks.
Pestilential swamp.
by Gary Gillette
Detroit Tigers Haiku No. 1
Legless catchers spawn
Famously angry peaches.
Hay market/Hey, Michigan!
Detroit Tigers Haiku No. 2
Wahoo Sam divides
Matty Mac from Cobb the Peach.
The loon shrieks “Ee-yah.”
Detroit Tigers Haiku No. 3
Hank’s Hebrew hammer
Batters crystal hatred…knocked
To green fields beyond.
Posted 4/25/08