Mark Martin Poet Haiku

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 February 21, 2017 at 12:27 PM Great Haiku! Mark Martin February 21, 2017 at 12:58 PM Thanks Donna! :-)

Kim Rodrigues February 12, 2017 at 9:40 PM Must be good! Can't understand a word of it...lol. Watch some sports but not much. Mark Martin February 13, 2017 at 10:52 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 February 12, 2017 at 6:37 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 February 13, 2017 at 10:47 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".