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<div id="intro"><p>Baseball is the most literary of sports, bursting with metaphor, image and rhythm, and poets have long recognized the symbolic parallels between a baseball game and the ground of daily life from which their poems sprout. A baseball game tells a story inside the confines of its form, just as a poem does. Its balls and strikes, hits and outs, runs and innings are very like the echoes and rhymes, stresses and stops, lines and stanzas of a poem. Here are our favorite baseball poems, selected for reading while you&rsquo;re watching a game.</p></div><div class="lsItm"><h3 class="dsc"><a href="http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blthayercasey.htm">&#8220;Casey at the Bat,&#8221; by Ernest L. Thayer</a></h3><blockquote>The outlook wasn&rsquo;t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day:<br> The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play,<br> And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,<br> A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game...</blockquote></div><script>zSB(3,3)</script><div class="lsItm"><h3 class="dsc"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=174766" zT="-o1/XJ" target="_blank">&#8220;The Crowd at the Ball Game,&#8221; by William Carlos Williams</a></h3><blockquote>The crowd at the ball game<br> is moved uniformly<br> <br> by a spirit of uselessness<br> which delights them &mdash;...</blockquote></div><div class="lsItm"><h3 class="dsc"><a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15658" zT="-o1/XJ" target="_blank">&#8220;Baseball and Writing,&#8221; by Marianne Moore</a></h3><blockquote>Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting<br> and baseball is like writing.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You can never tell with either<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;how it will go<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;or what you will do;...</blockquote></div><div class="lsItm"><h3 class="dsc"><a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2006/05/28" zT="-o1/XJ" target="_blank">&#8220;Analysis of Baseball,&#8221; by May Swenson</a></h3><blockquote>It&rsquo;s about<br> the ball,<br> the bat,<br> and the mitt.<br> Ball hits<br> bat, or it<br> hits mitt.<br> Bat doesn&rsquo;t<br> hit ball, bat<br> meets it.<br> Ball bounces<br> off bat, flies<br> air, or thuds<br> ground (dud)<br> or it<br> fits mitt...</blockquote></div><div class="lsItm"><h3 class="dsc"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172265" zT="-o1/XJ" target="_blank">&#8220;Tao in the Yankee Stadium Bleachers,&#8221; by John Updike</a></h3><blockquote>Distance brings proportion. From here<br> the populated tiers<br> as much as players seem part of the show:<br> a constructed stage beast, three folds of Dante&rsquo;s rose,<br> or a Chinese military hat<br> cunningly chased with bodies...</blockquote></div><div class="lsItm"><h3 class="dsc"><a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/baseball-canto.html" zT="-o1/XJ" target="_blank">&#8220;Baseball Canto,&#8221; by Lawrence Ferlinghetti</a></h3><blockquote>Watching baseball, sitting in the sun, eating popcorn,<br> reading Ezra Pound,<br> and wishing that Juan Marichal would hit a hole right through the<br> Anglo-Saxon tradition in the first Canto<br> and demolish the barbarian invaders...</blockquote></div><div class="lsItm"><h3 class="dsc"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=176463" zT="-o1/XJ" target="_blank">&#8220;Baseball and Classicism,&#8221; by Tom Clark</a></h3><blockquote>Every day I peruse the box scores for hours<br> Sometimes I wonder why I do it<br> Since I am not going to take a test on it<br> And no one is going to give me money...</blockquote></div><div class="lsItm"><h3 class="dsc"><a href="http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/jcba21_corso.html" zT="-o1/XJ" target="_blank">&#8220;Dream of a Baseball Star,&#8221; by Gregory Corso</a></h3><blockquote>I dreamed Ted Williams<br> leaning at night<br> against the Eiffel Tower, weeping.<br> <br> He was in uniform<br> and his bat lay at his feet<br> &mdash; knotted and twiggy.<br> <br> &ldquo;Randall Jarrell says you&rsquo;re a poet!&rdquo; I cried.<br> &ldquo;So do I! I say you&rsquo;re a poet!&rdquo;...</blockquote></div><script>zSB(1,2)</script><div class="lsItm"><h3 class="dsc"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171765" zT="-o1/XJ" target="_blank">&#8220;The Seventh Inning,&#8221; by Donald Hall</a></h3><blockquote>1. Baseball, I warrant, is not the whole<br> occupation of the aging boy.<br> Far from it: There are cats and roses;<br> there is her water body...</blockquote></div><div class="lsItm"><h3 class="dsc"><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/pinsky/the_night_game.php" zT="-o1/XJ" target="_blank">&#8220;The Night Game,&#8221; by Robert Pinsky</a></h3><blockquote>...A night game, the silver potion<br> Of the lights, his pink skin<br> Shining like a burn....</blockquote></div><!--/gc-->
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