Baseball Poetry: Baseball (day/night doubleheader)
April 6, 2010 by Mark Ahrens
Filed under Baseball Writing, Uncategorized
On a monthly basis, Spitball Literary Magazine publishes a baseball-related poem. The March 2010 winner is called 
day/night doubleheader by Bruce Harris. The poem expresses the author’s feelings about how baseball has changed since he was a boy and, perhaps, how some of the innocence of youth has slipped away as well.
Enjoy and let us know what chord this poem strikes within you.
Baseball (day/night doubleheader) by Bruce Harris
first game
Complete games were routine for some,
watched by hats and ties through fragrant cigar smoke.
Great Scott – home run derby – M&Ms – Maypo (hold the juice).
Baseball is Topps and a nickel is king.
September’s done. Eight teams dream of afternoon October fun.night cap
Save this. DH that. Pitch count. Everyone looks like a catcher now.
Corporate heads sit and talk while starting pitchers transact business with the bullpen.
Only birds get flipped.
Jokers and wild cards blow on hands. Stars under stars
while witches and ghosts and goblins play.
