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Best Ballplayers Poems

Below are the all-time best Ballplayers poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of ballplayers poems written by PoetrySoup members


The Road To a Championship
Early one morning a group of rookie's and veteran's ballplayers emerge onto the prac-
tice field destine to began an grueling season of hardwork and a...

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Categories: ballplayers, adventure, art, devotion, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
Baseball Dreams
I remember as 
   a kid 
my mother gave my copy 
   of Frank Waldman's 
"Bonus Pitcher" 
   ...

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Categories: ballplayers, baseball,
Form: Blank verse
Emerald Dreams
I remember 
    as a  kid 
that my mother gave my copy of Frank Waldman's "Bonus Pitcher" to the book fair
...

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Categories: ballplayers, baseball,
Form: Concrete



Premium Member It's Tradition I Submit
Is there a reason why all ballplayers spit
Can they get to the majors, if a spittoon the can't hit
Twenty paces while chawing
On tabaccy while jawing
At...

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Categories: ballplayers, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Notes Upon Watching the Nets
A nice, pretty Jewish woman 
told me a while back 
that she thought Basketball was for Black people 
   What she didn't realize...

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Categories: ballplayers, dream, hope, sports,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The American Morning
The American Morning

We ride smoothly, deliberately, in this old cruising caravan,
Across the ancient American avenues and boulevards, 
Of the once living, and now, the finally...

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Categories: ballplayers, america, baseball, hope,
Form: Free verse



Focused Lines
Well today I find myself stretching again

Passed tests trials and wicked heart men

Playing games on courts

Who me no door

Shuts close with no reason

Freedom comes in...

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Categories: ballplayers, addiction, allusion, truth,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Fairies and Gnomes
In the land of fairies and gnomes
Was a gnome often seen on the phone
And an up to date fairy
With armpits quite hairy
Like all ballplayers were...

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Categories: ballplayers, fairy,
Form: Limerick
An Unrevised Poem About Baseball
I watched as the Mets slammed the opposition 10 -2 
Been a fan for years
Played catcher for a little while as a kid
Watching sports is...

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Categories: ballplayers, baseball,
Form: Free verse
Songs of Light
I must say 
that there have been 
terrible things in the news
     But one can escape the horrors
By reading a good...

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Categories: ballplayers, america, anti bullying, baseball,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member It's Tradition
Is there a reason why all ballplayers spit
Can they get to the majors, if a spittoon they can't hit
Twenty paces while chawing
On tobaccy, while jawing
At...

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Categories: ballplayers, baseball,
Form: Limerick

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