Inspiration Baseball Poems

Every kid loves to hear that glorious sound                 ...

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It's not easy becoming a Legendary  
Major League Baseball pitcher.
It never was and will never be.
You get put through the wringer
and hung out to...

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Number 42 Retire
Brooklyn Dodgers Number 42
Hang up your jersey, honey
No one can follow you after Jackie Robinson

Major League Baseball was uplifted into the outer sphere
When...

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sipping pinot grigio '09
soothing raindrops of beethoven's ninth
washing away the dust of my day

tv on, watching my mudville nine -
two outs in the bottom of...

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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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I can still remember the day,
     And it wasn't that long ago.
Where we sought some inspiration,
     From...

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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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Sometimes a poem just comes to you,
                  ...

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I HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR THAT NOLAN RYAN. 
IN EVERY SINGLE WAY. 
I WOULD LOVE TO THINK OF THIS 
AS JUST ANOTHER DAY. 
NOLAN RYAN...

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I think I will take a walk
Trying to rid this writers block
Maybe I will stop and watch a hawk
Or some seagulls flying in their flock

Perhaps...

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A Chicago Cubs-Fan Prayer Answered! 

In nomine patri et fili spiritu of Ron Santo!
Let us all give thanks for Ernie Banks! 

Let us play........, two!...

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My blue, frayed Cubs cap
Here I hold you in my very own hands
As I look at this old, yet important cap
Many memories go back in...

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What I Gave?

I gave….nothing??
Time, and patience, and
a love of “The Game’.

She gave everything,
heart, strength, resolve,
to play “The Game”.

She is special,
handicapped, disabled,
and six years old.

Me, not...

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