Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel
……………………………………………………………………………….. Taking Higher Ground by Michael X. Ferraro Chris Davis’s 0-fer-8 night ended in bliss. Five times did the DH swing-swing-swing and miss. So, post-platinum sombrero, why the big grin? ‘Cause he tossed two scoreless and picked up the win. ……………………………………………………………………………….. The Ballad of Chris Davis by Stu Shea How does a player go 0-for-8 …
by Michael X. Ferraro Jamie Moyer, long of tooth, Nabs a win at 49. Never pitched to ol’ Babe Ruth But babysat him one time. Michael X. Ferraro is a TV writer/producer and author of Numbelievable: The Dramatic Stories Behind the Most Memorable Numbers in Sports History and Tased & Amused: The Shocking Poetic Recap …
By Michael X. Ferraro “Cheering the Beard” is such a thorny notion It nearly got Ozzie chucked in the ocean. Instead he crash-landed in water so hot ‘T’would turn a refugee raft ‘to a teapot. Down in Miami, fidelity to Fidel Earns one the stature of Eddie Gaedel. So Guillen, he of cojones inflated, Went …
BARDBALL wants to resurrect the connection between baseball and poetry, between the love of the game and love of language. A century ago, most baseball columnists regularly published poems in the paper about the players, the personalities, the action and the game itself. “Casey at the Bat” might not be Shakespeare, but if Shakespeare were alive …