Tribute Baseball Poems

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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LIFE’S CURVEBALLS

A past time of getting hit by a curveball, would send me off my trolley
Now I see it, catch it, as return it to...

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Came from Baltimore by Pigtown
Where they like to lay the law down.
He rebelled against the ground rule.
Had to grow up in reform school.
Got acquainted with...

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Round Mudville Market, foul air was omnipresent
butchers rent fowls’ necks to make tenant's rent, 
the scene that was seen was most unpleasant.

As sunset fell, we...

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The first three pitches: just outside. Pitch four:
right at the knees - "Steerike!", the umpire calls.
I wait to get the pitch I'm hoping for…
The next...

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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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You've been comin' to me live since I was six years old
Part of almost every single summer that I've known 
You tell us when it's...

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I woke up this morning, 
Believe me, I was ready to play.
For those of you 
Who are unaware 
Today's a gargantuan day.
Electrifying excitement 
Alive and...

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Yeah you struck out a lot but when you connected it was majestic and I've never before or since seen anyone lay out for a...

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Plenty of room in « Le Foot »* for Soccer
     For Doug Vinson at PoetrySoup.com
      ...

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BARRY BONDS  
NOW THERE'S A NAME  
THAT SHOULD RESIDE  
IN THE HALL OF FAME  

AS A ROOKIE 
HE SHOWED SOME STRENGTH...

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I HAVE TO GET SOME EARLY SLEEP  
FOR TOMORROWS GAME  
I HAVE TO FACE THAT NOLAN RYAN  
HE THROWS SMOKE AND FLAME...

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RICKEY HENDERSON 
IS ELITE 
HE DID IT ALL 
ON HIS OWN TWO FEET
 
RICKEY'S WELL KNOWN 
FOR STOLEN BASES 
LEAD OFF HOMERS 
AGAINST THE ACES...

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OL'E TY COBB OF YESTER YEAR, 
WAS A GENIUS IN SPIKES, OR SO I HEAR. 

HE RAN THE BASES WITH A BURST OF SPEED. 
LIKE...

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WHEN YOU VISIT ST. LOUIS, HOME OF THE ARCH. 
TAKE TIMEOUT, TO VISIT THE PARK. 

THIS IS THE HOME, TO THE GREATEST OF ALL. 
STAN...

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