Baseball Hero Poems

The former MVP pawned his very last ring
    like the others, it had begun to sting
  Bittersweet memories of his storied...

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Be a cowboy, the TV once beamed at me
    Later on, a baseball or football star

  For a while, of 'He-Man'...

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Rachel Robinson, Jackie's wife, still alive for me
When she speaks of April 15, 1947, conversationally
The day that Jackie broke the toughest barrier
There ever was and...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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I can still remember the day,
     And it wasn't that long ago.
Where we sought some inspiration,
     From...

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As far back as he can remember…memories he loves to skim
his heroes came from the pages of children’s books his dad would read to him.

When...

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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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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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The bases needed sweeping 
As the end was drawing near
Buns and weenies waving
As Fans swilled down their beer

The crowd jumped to their feet
As Macy went...

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Silence hushed, a crowd in awe,
Only crickets could be heard.
Under the spell of the Babe,
They looked to where he pointed,
Hoping to see a home run....

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Born in a radioactive life with few friends
Rejected from a place he never felt was home
He finds himself stranded and alone
His eyes blinded by the...

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Sports can summon within you the star
the player that prepares himself to professional
a being that belongs beneath balls and sweat
or water and wheels of any...

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Fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan;
And watched thousands of recruits try to make my Sooners Team.
Often, I’ve enviously wondered what it...

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To play as if today
Is your only chance.
Some say, “It’s just a game.”
Have they done the Victory Dance?

When hard-earned Victory
Was finally at hand,
Have they felt...

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To be called ..
            ~   Grandma is a Honor ~

  ...

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