April Baseball Poems

April 5—Get a sport into a poem!

Make Baseball Great Again!

It is time 
to make American baseball 
Great again

starting with creating a worldwide 
baseball competition 
with...

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   Fast as you can say ‘Jack Robinson’
      Up pops another rookie phenom

   But as April...

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Jackie Robinson and I go way way back
To the spring of nineteen forty-six
A Montreal ballpark on a April afternoon
The day the world was transfixed

The colour...

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The Cubs are still winning
    In fact, they're red-hot
  Out of 17 games, they've won quite a lot

  Out in...

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On April 26, 1992 a baby boy was born to parents that did not want him. The parents chose to not abort, instead of terminating...

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Written April 14, 2017


It's easy to fall in love
Even easier to break apart
I've been trying for six long years
To mend this broken heart

You used to...

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a baseball hat Damian found, 
                   ...

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Rachel Robinson, Jackie's wife, still alive for me
When she speaks of April 15, 1947, conversationally
The day that Jackie broke the toughest barrier
There ever was and...

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Lines, Launch Angles and Curve Balls

The boys of summer 
Set up for a season of lines, launch angles and curve balls
With straight chalky lines leading...

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Spring training has started for Major League teams.
Games will be played on all the fields of dreams.
There are thirty Major League teams in all.
They represent...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Opening Day with a Little Delay

Take me out to the ball game
 Of balls and strikes - bloopers and perfect games; 
 Basket catches, ERA’S,...

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Ye lovers of song, 
musically inclined,
Sing loud, Sing now,
All the birds of the earth are listening
while we sing all over the world.

Sing like
...the mockingbird
 ...

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A smile on her face
and a gleam in her eye,
zeal gets her on first.
      W A T C H
Next play,...

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Losing with Grace.....

Baseball players know how to play
their game and move on.
When they lose, they lose.
They don't talk of collusion, or who
stole bases and worse..
To...

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