Gehrig Poems - Poems about Gehrig

...We've heard of ALS as "Lou Gehrig's disease" Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis a cause to pray on our knees But Lou Gehrig felt he was "the luckiest man on earth"* the Yankees, and his wife the ......Read the rest...

...A Song With no Name From my grandfather and my dad and performed by their son and grandson, me. It was an old melody with no name of a ballad my grandfather wrote a long time ago. The melody was s......Read the rest...

...Hey…did I ever tell you ‘bout the greatest baseball game, Or should I say…the one that gave “Ol' Babe” his famous name? Like several other great ones, there were many hits that day, And if it h......Read the rest...

...I have attempted to capture my favorite major league baseball players in this little shape poem of home plate. Included are (in no particular order): Say Hey Willie Mays Wal......Read the rest...

...Some numbers tumble down the hallowed halls of baseball’s past - a sport of numbers after all, these memories hold fast. Stan Musial wore #6, Lou Gehrig, #4; the “luckiest man in all the earth”, g......Read the rest...

...I'm the luckiest man on earth, Lou Gehrig had said Two months later, the greatest Yankee was dead Gehrig suffered from ALS, a fatal disease He peered beyond the pain, his words a fresh breez......Read the rest...

...BASEBALL IS THE GAME A game embedded in the soul of America. Baseball spans generations. Father to son, father to son and so on. It is a mirror of our culture and history. Icons like Ruth, G......Read the rest...

...Robin Hood, man in tights Julius Caesar, might makes right Alexander, called "the Great" Sitting Bull, righteous hate Robert the Bruce, Attila the Hun Charlemagne, Napoleon Hear the c......Read the rest...

...153 Street Station is clean Down sturdy metal steps through old Yankee Stadium field where Ruth and Gehrig ran. Pungent in the nostrils piss follows me Up the hill where supers sweep trash ......Read the rest...

...The New York Yankees have made winning a tradition. They’ve won for years despite periodic transition. Since the twenties, the Yankees have won many a game. Their yearly teams had many players ach......Read the rest...

...when it comes to baseball there was one team that we shall remember from it's past it's the nineteen twenty seven N.Y Yankees amidst this legendary collection you shall find the h......Read the rest...

...Well, here I am again, with my tales from the night before. Just when you thought you heard it all, here I am with more. Remember back in “one” of the tales I told to you, Well please sit back and......Read the rest...