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Lou Gehrig Poems - Poems about Lou Gehrig


Premium Member Lou Gehrig's ease
...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 ......

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Categories: lou gehrig, appreciation, baseball, dedication, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Song With No Name
...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......

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Categories: lou gehrig, father, grandfather, music, song,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Play Ball
...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......

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Categories: lou gehrig, baseball,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Baseball By the Numbers
...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......

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Categories: lou gehrig, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lou Gehrig, Peerless
...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......

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Categories: lou gehrig, baseball, pain, visionary,
Form: Clerihew



Premium Member The New York Yankees
...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......

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Categories: lou gehrig, dedication, sports
Form: Rhyme
The Deadball Era
...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......

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Categories: lou gehrig, adventure, childhood, dedication, education,
Form: Free verse
Dream of Celebrities Ii
...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......

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Categories: lou gehrig, fantasy, funny, happiness, old,
Form: Quatrain

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