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Baseball Poems

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#1 by Brenda Awerbach
1927 Yankees by Robert L.Harrison Published by: New York Baseball Poems (1999)
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A clever runner steals a base By James J. Metcalfe
A Fairy Tale B by Wayne Lanter
After the Game From the book "That Sweet Diamond" By Paul B. Janeczko, Carole Katchen (Illustrator)
Alone At The Plate
An Asterik as Big as a ball by Tim Peeler
Anthem by William (Sugar) Wallace
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Babe Ruth Curse I by Joe Pickering, Jr.
Ball of Bases A Baseball Poem By: Hank Festa (Los Angeles, CA.)
A Ballad of Baseball Burdens by Franklin P. Adams
Ballpark Haiku by Tim Peller
Barry Bonds Hits his 700th Home Run by Kit Menkin
The Base Stealer by Robert Francis
Baseball Archeologist by Tim Peeler
Baseball Canto by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Baseball Written by Don Angel © in 08-1997 Published: Baseball Almanac (08-2003)
Baseball is a Simple Game A Poem by Nancy Pham
Baseball by Samplette
Baseball and Writing Marianne Moore
Baseball Is by Greg Hall © Published: ESPN Radio (2000)
A Baseball Game (Free Verse)
The Baseball Players By Donald Hall
Baseball Season to Begin by Erif Forgaard
BaseballTao.com Excerpts from: "Baseball According to Lao-Tzu" by John W. Hart III, illustrations by Adam R. Factor
Bat Boy by Dan Zamudio
The Batter From the book That Sweet Diamond by Paul B. Janeczko, Carole Katchen (Illustrator)
Beisbol's Arrival by Michael J. Bielawa © Published: Baseball Almanac (2000)
Bob Shepard by Bill Lattanzi
Boys
“Brother Noah Gave Out Checks For Rain” by Arthur Longbrake
Budweiser by Tim Peeler
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The Call of the Brook Verdigris Valley Verse Albert Stroud (Coffeyville, Kansas: The Journal Press. 1917)
Casey at the Bat by R.J. Brown
Casey's Random Batting Trail by Keith Woolner
The Catcher Learns the Motion by Tim Peeler
Catcher Sings the Blues From the book "That Sweet Diamond" By: Paul B. Janecsko, Carole Katchen (Illustrator)
The Carcher Learns the Motion by Tim Peeler
The Closer www.hambug.com
The Crowd at the Ball Game by William Carlos Williams
Cubs Poem Written by Brian Dougherty 2/4/04
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Dodger Blue by Richard Aberdeen©(August 20, 2003) Sung to the tune Deportee by Woodie Guthrie & Marting Hoffman
Double Play Fron the Book "That Sweet Diamond" by Paul B. Janeczko, Carole Katchen (Illustrator)
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End of Millennium World Series 2000 by Mark H. Young © Published: Baseball Almanac (11/15/2000)
Envoy
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Fathers Playing Catch By Donald Hall
Fifth Place Baseball in September By Tim Peeler
First Time At Third by Jacqueline Sweeney © Published: At The Crack Of The Bat (1992)
For Junior Gilliam by B. H. Fairchild
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God Protects Fools with Curveballs by Tim Peller
Ground Hog Days By Paul Hunt, Topsham, Maine
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The Greatest Hitter that ever lived By Ken Wasnock
Haiku Contes Winners Hall of Fame Weekend
Hammerin' Hank by D. Roger Martin ©
Hot Stove by Two Finger Carney
How It All Started Anonymus
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I Dream of a Baseball Star by Gregory Corso
I love Baseball
If By Rudyard Kipling
In 69 By Tim Peeler
In the Blazing Sun - from: Songs Of The Out-o'-doors
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"Jack" By JackFan2
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The Last Cowboy Gene Autry poem by Jack Buck
Life by Jim "Mudcat" Grant
Listening to Baseball By Jim Lehrer
Love of the Game by David Michael Chambers
Little Boy with his Bat and Ball
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The Machine by Stephen Porter © Published: Baseball Almanac (03-20-2001)
The man who gave all the dreamers in baseball land bigger drams to dream by Michael J. Farrand
"Miracle Man": An original Poem by Holly Russcher
My Favorite Sport is Baseball
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National Pastime by Anonymous
The Night Game by Robert Pinsky
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October by Hester Jewell Dawson © Published: Stone Country (1986)
Old Timer's Day, Fenway Park, 1 May 1982 Donald Hall, U.S. Poet Laureate
Opening Day in Chicago Tomorrow by Milton Bracker
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Play at the Plate From the Book "That Sweet Diamond" by Paul B. Janeczko, Carole Katchen (Illustrator)
Playing the Prison Team at Menard
Polo Grounds By Rolfe Humphries
Preoccupied By Nancy Weaver
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Rainbow Slugger by Tim Peeler
Red Sox Prayer By Joan Morgan, Oklahoma
Reluctance By Robert Frost
The Red Sox Vs. The Ultimate Yankees by Bella Scorran
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Setting The Record Written by Don Angel © in 10-2001 Published: Baseball Almanac (08-2003)
Shortstop by Charles Ghigna © Published: Boyd Mills Press (2003)
Silly Question by Papa Joe Chevelier
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
from: Songs Of The Out-o'-doors Published in: The Popular Magazine - April 7, 1912
SPRING TRAINING POEM (pitchers and catchers report) by Carl Stevens
Stolen Butter
Stop Action Written by Conrad Hilberry, published in “Line Drives,” 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems edited by Brooke Horvath and Tim Wales, published by Southern Illinois University Press
Stubs Written by Gene Carney, published in “Romancing the Horsehide: Baseball Poems on Players the Game” Published by McFarland and Company
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Ted Williams - Still Smiling by Thomas Michael McDade
Teddy at the Bat (With apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer) By Dick Flavin (all rights reserved)
That Home Run Feeling by Tim Peeler
Thatcher on Hill By Thomas Fronckowiak Jr.
There is nothing, in sport, like a new baseball by Tim Peeler
Tied Bottom of the Nineth John W. Knight
This is the day by Tim Peeler
Three Run Homers, or, Rupert Brooke Celebrates Baseball
Three Strikes, yer Out ..... written by Greg Salts, Chula Vista, Calif.
The Time Machine by Stephen Porter © Published: Baseball Almanac (03-20-2001)
There was a Baseball game somewhere by Tim Peeler
Twenty-Six Years Now by Anonymous
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Voices of the Game By J. Kyle
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What Baseball Means to Me By Nathan N. Alpert
When I go to a Red Sox Baseball Game. The Boston Herald; 10/13/2003 (Arts and Lifestyle) Byline: Nicole Tardiff
When the Yankees Win by Carol P, Yankee Poet Laureate (Self Proclaimed)
Whiskey Moonl by Tim Peeler
Why Baseball Waltzes with Letters by Tim Peeler
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Yankees by Ann Marie Macari
Yesterday When I was Young Lyrics by Charles Aznavour Translated into English by Herbert Kreutzer Performed by Roy Clark, August 15, 1995, Dallas, Texas

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