The Baseball Bards

I found myself harried at the prospect of scraping up an entry for this week's update. I didn't have a poem or inspiring scrap of prose to exhibit, so I hope you aren't expecting one.

I didn't really want to discuss Jeter hurdling the Iron Horse because that goes along with the cliché about beating expired equines, so I'm not going there. And I suspect it is bad luck to harp on the Dodgers ongoing version of a Twenty First Century Breakdown ... here's wishing someone in the Second Division could beat the Rockies at least once a week.

And finally, I don't even want to try to make written sense as to why I find the Washington Nationals so interesting that I'm watching their games!

So this week, I had nothing ... and still HAVE nothing. But my bullpen bailed me out. That is, the MLB.com website is featuring a surprising article today by Jonathan Mayo about poetry in baseball.

Hot diggity damn.

It makes the page only after almost all the pennant races are secured and there is nothing else to feature. I bookmarked the link as fast as I could half expecting it to vanish.

Here:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090911&content_id=6909956&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

I was unaware of Lemon and Broshuis. We've already discussed Fernando Perez much earlier here at Of Sonnets & Sliders. I was unaware of Miguel Batista and found his story the most interesting although a gander at Neil Wagner's blog reveals a remarkable man who has a creative and unique look at the world as well as an impeccable taste in poetry (even if I do disagree with his assessment of Czeslaw Milosz's poems). Wagner's blog can be found here:

http://indiansprospect.mlblogs.com/

Well, that's all I have today. Here's to the NL West coming down to the last series betwixt the Blue and the Purple Mountain Majesties.