Best Minor League Poems

Small city arena long out of date,
that is where this B-league team plays their games,
young men learning, hopes for fortune and fame.
I watch the practice,...

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The Mets figured they already had a pitching ace.
They badly needed a competent man to play third base.
A righty and a lefty were considered better...

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It is love, not loss, we expect,
we long for and belong with,
we seek within
a cooperative economic network
rather than a competitive gain-over-loss
capital-rooted value system.

Love evolves more...

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It’s been a long time coming
But I’m still on my game 
Writing is the only outlet 
That frees me of this pain
I Talk it how...

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DURHAM BULLS

A triple-A minor league team,
most remember Bull Durham the movie.
I, the most spectacular firework set,
in the stormy sky. The kind of lightening show,
I think...

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Summer arrives and the Brooklyn Cyclones are 
in first place
Saw them the other day and they won in twelve(!)
Just spoke  to a friend 
who...

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I was born
in October of 
   1955
One could hear 
  the World Series 
from the hospital room 
The famous series where
 ...

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Went to see a minor league game 
  in the fabled borough of Brooklyn 
   Ate hot dogs at Nathan's 
then headed...

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Mr. Sandberg has a very impressive claim:
He is a member of Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame.
Ryne put together an impressive playing career a little...

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Last Sunday 
I went to see
  a minor league game 
   took the ferry to
Staten Island with two friends 
  ...

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Maybe I’m just being petty 
let me state my case are you ready
When we first met your swagger 
made me stagger honestly 
I stammered over...

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Small stadium built in the late forties,
minor-league once, but has been left behind,
built with girders and backless, wooden seats,
a local relic of an older time.
The...

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What makes a poet?

I might be curious how the world function, but in that case
it is better to be a scientist or a cook, don’t...

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I come through the birth canal alone but I have never really ever been alone I have knowledge man's knowledge it is substandard the words...

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Rosco Adagio, aka for the Cross Promotional
event that was secretly planned to get
rid of reporter hype and fakenews.
Dance floor records was named the
 place for...

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