Tag Archives: Baseball

The End of Every Fan’s Desire

By Robin Bates | Published: May 10, 2014

Orioles manager Buck Showalter lived his childhood in “To Kill a Mockingbird” and brings to mind an old Franklin Adams baseball poem.

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Bat Waits for Ball to Mate

By Robin Bates | Published: March 29, 2014

The start of the baseball season calls for this fine May Swenson poem.

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Beards Win Big–Melville Would Approve

By Robin Bates | Published: November 2, 2013

Herman Melville would have approved of the Boston Red Sox and the beards.

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OMG, a Yankee-less Postseason!

By Robin Bates | Published: October 5, 2013

Something feels wrong about no Yankee team in the postseason. Time to reminisce with a Marianne Moore poem.

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Poems on Mayweather, Manziel, Rivera

By Robin Bates | Published: September 28, 2013

“The Daily Sports Poem” blog has poems that perfectly capture a wide range of sporting events.

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The Boys of Summer

By Robin Bates | Published: August 17, 2013

Fitzgerald’s baseball poem captures the sounds and the textures of the game.

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Baseball Frees the Imagination

By Robin Bates | Published: August 3, 2013

Baseball, like reading, encourages the imagination to soar.

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Take Me Out to the Lynch Mob

By Robin Bates | Published: July 27, 2013

A baseball poem by William Carlos Williams captures well the two sides of a crowd.

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A Pitching Poem to Honor a Pitching Great

By Robin Bates | Published: July 20, 2013

Gerald Hern distilled a manager’s dilemme to its essence in his poem about Spahn and Sain.

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