From The Green Fields Of The Mind
By A. Bartlett GiamattiIt breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come out, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
Today, October 2nd, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone.
Baseball Stories
- The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories
by Zane Grey - Baseball Stories by Michael Finley
- BASEBALL HEROES By Rabbi Paysach Krohn
- If you want to play baseball, first learn how to spit right
by J. G. Fabiano - The Baseball Thief by Charles Hinckley
- "The Green Fields of the Mind" by A. Bartlett Giamatti
- The Ethics of Pitching Jesus High and Tight By Will Carroll
- Going Yard by Susan DiPlacido *
- Like A Girl by Susan DiPlacido *
Lou Gehrig Farewell Speech
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And you answer Baseball in a blink There are certain qualities you must possess And you're more attached than you think. In the frozen grip of winter I'm sure you'll agree with me Not a day goes by without someone Talking baseball to some degree. The calendar flips on New Year's Day The Super Bowl comes and it goes Get the other sports out of the way The green grass and the fever grows. It's time to pack a bag and take a trip To Arizona or the Sunshine State Perhaps you can't go, but there's the radio So you listen-you root-you wait. They start the campaign, pomp and pageantry reign You claim the pennant on Opening Day
From April till fall
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Baseball Poems
- Line-Up for Yesterday by Ogden Nash
- Speaking of Greenberg by Edgar A. Guest (1934)
- Baseball Poems, Songs, Quotes
- Robert Fitzgerald, "Cobb Would Have Caught It"
- Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer
- Baseball's Sad Lexicon by Franklin Pierce Adams (Tinker to Evers to Chance)
- A Little League Monday Night by Steve Cutchen
and other baseball poems - Baseball by Gail Mazur
- An Octina for Wally Pip By Michael Cantor
- The Famous Yankees Poems and Sayings Page
Plus One Golf Story
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