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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Waiting for Godot's First Pitch: More Poems from Baseball

Waiting for Godot's First Pitch: More Poems from Baseball

Peeler, Tim

Paperback

Series: More Poems from Baseball

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0786411279
ISBN13: 9780786411276
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jul 31 2001
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In baseball, as in much poetry, beauty comes from tension. Groundrules and boundaries confine those who would play, but the best find ways to exploit their strictures, and just as the daring base runner takes second on a fly to right, the practiced poet trips the sleepy reader with a surprise rhyme, bold line break, or a jarring reversal of foot. It's no surprise, then, that hardball has a larger body of literature than other sports, or that aficionados are more likely than others to quote lines of verse in support of the game they love.

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