Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel
Guardian Anthony Gose
Comes and goes
Goes and comes
Up and down I-71
Up to Cleveland
Down to Columbus
Too bad to keep
Too good to dump
Four times in a month
He’s been DFA’d,
Eerily close to Buddy Holly:
“Don’t Fade Away.”
1BÂ Â Jimmie Foxx
2BÂ Â Xavier Edwards
SSÂ Â Xander Bogaerts
3BÂ Â Ollie Sax
LF  Leovigildo Xiqués
CFÂ Â Xavier Paul
RFÂ Â Ox Eckhardt
CÂ Â Poindexter Williams
LHP  Xavier Cedeño
RHPÂ Â Xzavion Curry, Kanekoa Texeira, Axel Lindstrom
MGRÂ Â Dicta Johnson
Alex Bregman is very popular.
From the 4/5/55 Cleveland Plain Dealer:
Yank pitching rook, one Johnny Kucks,
Is looking like one million Bucks
And kindly let me hear no More,
If possible, of one Herb Score.
They just auctioned off the shirt
Worn by the Babe when he put the hurt
On the Cubs in the Series of ’32.
We all fall for this dippity-do
Of the “called shot”, yet
The Babe himself plumb forgot
To mention it ’til 20 years later,
Making it a stale, strange tater.
Would Cubs pitcher Root, further,
Not have wished that showboat murder
And thrown a fastball at his ear
Next time up, to local cheers?
It’s a myth, okay? A tall tale, a fable.
Just ‘cuz the sellers say they are able
To verify the jersey through “photo-match”,
And other wits say aye, the whole klatsch
Is in the end a suspicious familia,
All making bank on each other’s memorabilia.
What was true then is true now, don’t be mistaken:
There’s one born every minute, and two to take him.
