Best Innings Poems

without a game clock
twenty-seven outs is game
excitement galore...

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It only took about ten minutes for me to warm up,
so, I had time to play catch with a friend on my team.
The line-ups were...

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… well I had a hell of a ride

won’t go to heaven but paradise needs fire

goods innings they say

but I am more of a Rugby...

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A lot of reasons to cry
A lack of reasons to smile

 Shall I cry 
Or once again try

My heart is daunting
My mind is pondering

Time has...

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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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Swing of the bat, contests
Fielders’ gloves, ball in motion, 
Run, slide, throw - called safe!

Innings are by turns,
Dramatic or biding, boxscores
Revealing  who’s up.

Catching foul...

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Don't know if you've noticed but life is like a baseball game
You start out as a rookie, then get through the middle frames
You start to...

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Why is the pitcher in for only two innings or three?
Spring training is going on right now, you see.
From a long winter, veterans scrape off...

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The crow took a crowbar, a dog a doggerel rhythm
         Both played their great innings, hoho, ...

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In baseball there is an unwritten rule;
Whenever a pitcher is in the process of pitching a perfect game: 
A game in which he has yet...

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Genteel and articulate, 
An inspiration you have been. 
Loyalty and Passion
In you, we have seen. 

Rising through ranks, 
Sweat blood all this while. 
Making your...

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From this summertime game, girls derive joys. 
Who said baseball should only be played by boys? 
Girls can catch fly balls, field grounders, and render...

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     Unquotable quotes -  III

When in Rome, do as the Roman Nero.
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the vain...

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Nurse, Nurse I have an owie
I don’t’ know what to do
Because it’s getting soggy
Please tell me that you do

Nurse, Nurse I think I have a...

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There is a story ‘bout Casey, that is but incomplete
It tells of simple ball and bat and Mighty’s ignoble feat
There we learned of failure and...

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