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brian backman wrote,
Jim,
Thought you would like to know your web-site was mentioned in a Free Press article by Ernie Harwell a few weeks ago.
Link | October 15th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
annie d. wrote,
just making y’all aware, in case you weren’t already, of the joe torre haiku “contest” going on at http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/joe-torre-haiku-contest/
Link | October 24th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Joyce A. Fenech wrote,
Jim:
Just want to thank you first of all for writing “The Silver Lining or Atleast the Yankees Lost”. It clearly
expressed my sentiments along with the sentiments of most other Tiger Fans I know. And second of all for sending the autographed copy! I’m looking for the appropriate frame. My husband is a huge Yankee Fan, I of course am not. But rest assured it will be hung proudly in a place of honor!Thanks Again!
Link | October 27th, 2007 at 3:35 am
Gene Carney wrote,
Just found your site, thanx to my daughter (who found your postcard in a Seattle store). I wrote most of my baseball poetry before the Selig Strike of 94-95 … some is in “Romancing the Horsehide” (McFarland, 1993) and more coming out this spring in A BASEBALL FAMILY ALBUM — see
http://www.pocolpress.com/getBookDetail.php?bookID=000033
Are you in any way connected (yet) to SABR (www.sabr.org) which has a national network of folks devoted in various ways to baseball & the arts?
Or to the Baseball Reliquary? Or the L.A. Bards?
GC
Link | March 22nd, 2008 at 2:05 am
surlyh wrote,
Jim-
Love the site. I’ll send you a few lines one of these days.
surlyh
Link | June 5th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Inforerse wrote,
I can get boistrous with my sensitive heat Fresh joke! Which side of a dog has the most hair? The out side.
Link | October 26th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Cvecukje wrote,
Thanks!,
Link | December 13th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Thomas M. McDade wrote,
Would you publish this haiku composed by my wife?
David Wright
David wright does not
Succumb to injured digit
Whether hand or foot
Carol S. McDade
Link | March 19th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Larry Epke wrote,
Yankee haiku
Just when I thought
I’d heard it all -
“Now pitching for New York, Nick Swisher!”
Link | April 16th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Stephen Jones wrote,
A Baseball Poem #3
Anticipation’s eyes locked
pitcher-to-batter batter-to-pitcher
catcher & umpire the close- ended
joint of a fan laid down
spread open warning track-edged
& on some groomed green grass outfield
a leather glove is thumped waiting
Link | June 6th, 2009 at 2:47 am
Stephen Jones wrote,
A Baseball Poem #3
Anticipation’s eyes locked
pitcher-to-batter batter-to-pitcher
catcher & umpire the close-ended
joint of bright green a fan laid down
spread open the warning track
the fair-and-foul lines all edged
& on an outfield’s groomed grass
an oiled glove thumped waiting
Link | June 17th, 2009 at 5:10 am
patrick hogan wrote,
Jerry Manuel
optimism waning
rain without a cloud
Link | July 13th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Anthony Salazar wrote,
Pay-Rod left our town
To seek fame and great fortune
Pity his poor choices
Link | August 10th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Patrick Hogan wrote,
David wright concussed
the mark of Cain on his head
is he disabled?
Link | August 16th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
sandrar wrote,
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.
Link | September 10th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Stephen Jones wrote,
A BASEBALL POEM
A foul off the bat
is simply that recovered
then
handed off to younger hands
an exchange a part of history
Link | September 21st, 2009 at 4:08 am
Bob Carlton wrote,
Haiku
Soft ground ball–
patches of bent grass
straightening.
Haiku
Bikini-clad blonde
dumps over a half-warm beer–
knuckleball dances.
Link | September 21st, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Stephen Jones wrote,
A BASEBALL POEM #5
Chilly tonight
Sky gray-mottled already
But baseball explodes
Despite the chill despite the gray
The Yankees make history
And drop to no one
I have dreamed this . . .
Pie face pie face
And money money Yes
. . . But a team is born
It may be chill it may be gray
But not arrrogant
In October pinstripes look good
Link | September 30th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
mike galer wrote,
Tiger er … Twins fan
By Mike Galer
The Tigers play so poor no one complains.
Twins are so good.
My son starts cheering for Twins.
Knows all the players by name
His love of Minnesota grows to Gophers and Vikings.
The years go by in a flash.
We smile and chuckle and a rivalry is born.
Detroit can’t win I am forlorn.
My wife plans a trip to the Mall and 10,000 lakes.
On a whim I buy tickets to a game for heaven sakes.
We go to the dome it is 97o outside.
Tigers are winning only I am cheering.
In the eighth Bonderman unravels
My son turns to me and says, ‘this was the greatest of travels’.
The time of his life he says with a smile.
I’ve done something right at least this day.
The Tigers lose on queue to make it complete.
Fans are cheering I stay in my seat.
As an added bonus kids run the bases.
My wife chortles, ‘I’m going too!’ as she tightens her laces.
We record the day in film and snapshots
Walk to the subway eat ice cream with dots
A few years have passed and the memories are mine
When Minnesota beat Detroit was just fine
Link | October 1st, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Stephen Jones wrote,
Baseball’s October Play
Variable Fall
Whitewashed now for bat & glove
For fields one last time
Link | October 11th, 2009 at 5:34 am
Stephen Jones wrote,
Baseball’s October Play
Variable Fall
White-striped for bat for glove
For fields one last time
(rewrite)
Link | October 11th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Stephen Jones wrote,
RSVP RED SOX FAN
You had your chance
But blew it - at home
The arrogance of bats
Not yours but swinging
Against you &
Your own play proof
A winter to compose
To refurbish to retool
Link | October 12th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Stephen Jones wrote,
Baseball & Poetry
Baseball & poetry both have rules
Flare hit within chalk not out
Not outside verbal lines but straddle
Touching second base on a double play
Is to touch with words necessary
To make the lines complete
Poetry & baseball having rules
Link | October 18th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Stephen Jones wrote,
A REWRITE
Baseball & Poetry
Baseball & poetry both have rules
A flare hit within chalk line not
Outside a verbal line straddling
Touching second base on a double play
To touch with words necessary
To make the lines complete
Poetry & baseball have rules
Link | October 20th, 2009 at 2:50 am
Stephen Jones wrote,
Eight . . . four . . . two
now the World Series venue
bat and ball ball and bat
pitchers arms curved awkward
that
their pitches skew batters
drive them crazy & inside out
then
the lazy curve the sudden hit
between two players
now
the breath exhales
the game is on
Link | October 26th, 2009 at 12:29 am
Stephen Jones wrote,
Haiku
Balloon to explode
No easy way to describe
Yankees well alive
Link | October 26th, 2009 at 4:12 am
Stephen Jones wrote,
A Baseball Haiku
Balloons to explode
No easy way to describe
Yankees well alive
Link | October 26th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Keith R.A. DeCandido wrote,
Here’s to A-Rod and his Centaur pic
Here’s to Damon Johnny and Swisher Nick
Here’s to CC, A.J., and Mo
Here’s to Molina, Cervelli, and Po
Here’s to the Captain in the leadoff spot
Here’s to Marte for getting red-hot
Here’s to Teixeira and his stretchy right leg
Here’s to fifth starters for which we would beg
Here’s to Joba and Phil, arms for the future
Here’s to Chien-Ming Wang and his sutures
Here’s to Melky and Gardner, fighting for starts
Here’s to Hairston and Hinske and other spare parts
Here’s to Cashman who put it together
Here’s to Cano, who can’t handle bad weather
Here’s to the bullpen from D-Rob to Ace
Here’s to Pettitte and the killer gaze
Here’s to Matsui, Most Valuable Player
And here’s to Girardi, who’ll need a new number
Link | November 6th, 2009 at 3:34 am
Stephen Jones wrote,
The World Series Parade
Fans blue-covered waves
Crested with white confetti
Their cheers an ocean
Link | November 7th, 2009 at 7:38 pm