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Baseball Haikus - a Brit's Perspective

Diamond battleground Collector's card currency Hero factory Little league conscripts Vocal parental advice Therapist's profits Score report passion Batting statistics frenzy Relive by numbers Glossary nightmare Commentator's lexicon Head scratching jargon World series warfare Stadium armageddon Sponsorship looting Counterfeit rounders? Diplomatic incident! Sanctions on cricket! Entry to "the national pastime" contest Written 12th February 2017 Notes: "Rounders" is a game played in both the UK and Ireland with similar rules to baseball https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounders

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Donna Roberts

Date: 2/21/2017 12:27:00 PM

Great Haiku!

Mark Martin
Date: 2/21/2017 12:58:00 PM

Thanks Donna! :-)

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 2/12/2017 9:40:00 PM

Must be good! Can't understand a word of it...lol. Watch some sports but not much.

Mark Martin
Date: 2/13/2017 10:52:00 AM

Same here - not really into sports. Had to do some research on this and dig down beneath the rules to find out how baseball really works. Thanks for your feedback! :-)

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 2/12/2017 6:37:00 PM

So you guys don't play baseball at all? Did you ever see the movie called Million Dollar ARm? Where they go into India recruiting kids that play cricket to be baseball pitchers. It's a very interesting movie.

Mark Martin
Date: 2/13/2017 10:47:00 AM

Hi Andrea. Some of us play baseball, but it's a minor sport. Mostly we play football (or soccer as you know it). Never saw the film you mentioned, but I do remember watching "a league of their own".