Spring Baseball Poems

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

   But as April...

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   Spring Training camps open now
     baseball players take their first bows

   It's months I've been fervently...

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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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If baseball were life and 
innings were seasons,
I'd sometimes play the Center-
a neutral spot with few extremes,
time enough for Short Stop dreams.
Don't care to be...

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Follows rules, since he was young.
Of being great, he climbs each rung.
His parents taught him right from wrong.
He will achieve his soul’s song!

Nothing free for...

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The spring has arrived
In Arizona
and in Florida
The teams get ready
to train for baseball.

That time again
for bats and balls,
batting helmets,
gloves and spike shoes.

The infield
and outfield
get ready.

baseball
is...

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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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The season’s almost over
One game left to go
It was better than expected
Much worse than I had hoped
So many blown saves
For fans watching on TV

A walk...

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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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geese in the outfield
bluejays in the batter's box
stealing signals


John G. Lawless
4/6/2020...

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I’m not sure
I have the strength anymore
To be discovered

Stepping into the cold black lake of February
Clopping to work in frozen slop
Snow snarling at my ankles

Car...

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hey pete
by Michael R. Burch
 
hey pete,
it's baseball season
and the sun ascends the sky,
encouraging a schoolboy's dreams
of winter whizzing by;
go out, go out and catch...

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USA MLB PLAYER
Cy Young Award winner.
Oakland A's # 43 
A's won AL Series 19&9
Baseball Hall of Famer

Funny, how we meet folks!!
    ...

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Spring has sprung, the fields have turned green;
He walks to the sunshine and stands on his dream;
He grew up in fields of brown earth and...

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Early Summer

Birds awake with the dawn
Their twitters break the last defending line of spring

 Air becomes light
Like a vegetable soup that I can bottom up...

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