Baseball In Verse

Thanks to an article on Slate today about the plethora of baseball blogs, I’ve discovered Humbug, written by Score Bard, that features many verses about current events in baseball. For instance from his prognostications for the NL West this season, we have:

Padres

It came to me once in a dream:

The Padres will have a good team.

I will trust this strange vision;

They will win the division

Or I’ll pinch myself, sit up and scream.

Giants
Maybe Alfonzo will hit,
While possibly Durham and Schmidt
Along with Robb Nen
Will be healthy and then
They won’t just be Bonds and that’s it.

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Meanwhile Bonds hit No. 661 this evening, to move into third place on the all-time home run list. Two home runs in two days, both splash hits into San Francisco Bay.