April 20, 2021 | BASEBALL, Poetry
On the 20th Anniversary...
Matthew Medendorp
On the 20th Anniversary of Randy Johnson Hitting A Dove Mid-Air with A Fastball During Spring Training in Tucson, Arizona
I.
There must be something there
about peace and the odds of it all:
a
April 20, 2021 | BASEBALL, Poetry
I want to give Glenn Burke a high five
Lauren Lopez
I want to give Glenn Burke a high five / I want to give Glenn Burke a high five for seeing Dusty Baker’s raised hand and just hitting it / I want to give Glenn Burke a high five for coming out in 1978
April 19, 2021 | BASEBALL, Poetry
A Poem That Takes Place on September 26th
Hattie Jean Hayes
My legs on yours, in the stadium lights,
I have only just learned your name.
You point, across the outfield,
at the worst fight we will ever have.
I can barely make it out in the crowd
of
April 18, 2021 | Rejected Modern Love Essay
You’re Always In Such A Hurry
Jenna Putnam
The boys are back together and everyone's in town except it's desolate and nobody gives a damn
April 14, 2021 | BASEBALL, Fiction
An Inning at Camden Yards
Peter Tyree Morrison Colwell
It took me all morning to build the fence. I used old lawn chairs, cardboard boxes, and rusty sign posts from the dumpster behind 7-Eleven. I meant for it to look like Camden Yards. The right field
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