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   Oct 24, 2007 · Robert Frost drew a similar comparison: “Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.” Baseball, like creative work, consists largely of failure; even the best hitters have to accept that nearly six times out of ten, they’ll trudge back to the bench in defeat.

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   Jul 6, 2007 · Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. Robert Frost. Frost’s favorite baseball team was the Boston Red Sox; his favorite player was Ted Williams. After attending an all-star game in Washington in 1956, Frost wrote a story for Sports Illustrated, “A Perfect Day – A Day of Prowess.”

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   Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ~Robert Frost . An “elevator pitch” is a short summary of an idea that you explain to someone verbally—basically it’s a short conversation. The name comes from the premise that you have the duration of an elevator ride with a colleague

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   Jul 6, 2007 · Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. Robert Frost. Frost’s favorite baseball team was the Boston Red Sox; his favorite player was Ted Williams. After attending an all-star game in Washington in 1956, Frost wrote a story for Sports Illustrated, "A Perfect Day – A Day of Prowess."

5. www.poetryfoundation.org › collections › 144782Baseball Poems - Poetry Foundation

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   And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go, And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey’s blow. p1. A Late Elegy for a Baseball Player. Felix N. Stefanile. cleats on his shoes, and a hometown shoulder, A Ballad of Baseball Burdens. Franklin Pierce Adams.

6. bill37mccurdy.com › 2014/10/16 › 26-great-but-lesser26 Great Lesser Known Baseball Quotes | The Pecan Park Eagle

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   Oct 16, 2014 · 1) Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ~Robert Frost. 2) It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. ~

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   Are poets like baseball pitchers?

   • Grand slam poetry: our twin national pastimes. "Poets are like baseball pitchers," claimed Robert Frost. He wasn't the only poet who felt an affinity for the game. From Marianne Moore to Longfellow to Franklin P. Adams, Levi Stahl takes a look at poetry about baseball, finding a few poets who throw strikes and a few who don't.

   Baseball and Verse, from Tinker to Evers to Big Papi - Poetry Foundation

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   What makes baseball poetry different?

   • What sets these poems apart from the bulk of baseball poetry, and from the ideology of individual accomplishment that is so much a part of the ethos of the sport, is that they’re about failure, and about intimacy, implying a deep, even necessary connection between the two. And in baseball, there’s so much space in the sport.

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   What is baseball's most famous poem?

   • Baseball’s most celebrated poem also depends on a strong final line. Published in the San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888, Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat” marches in rigid iambic hexameter, and the tone is overwrought, even given the poet’s gently ironic stance toward the action.

   Baseball and Verse, from Tinker to Evers to Big Papi - Poetry Foundation

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   Who are some poets who throw strikes?

   • From Marianne Moore to Longfellow to Franklin P. Adams, Levi Stahl takes a look at poetry about baseball, finding a few poets who throw strikes and a few who don't. I, too, throw it: Marianne Moore tossing out the first ball, opening day at Yankee Stadium.

   Baseball and Verse, from Tinker to Evers to Big Papi - Poetry Foundation

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   Who is the Mets poet?

   • In September the New York Times even profiled a versifying Shea Stadium regular known as the Mets Poet. The Amazins’ year ended disastrously, but with the Boston Red Sox and the Colorado Rockies opening the World Series this week, now’s a good time to hold a brief conference on the mound about baseball and poetry.

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   Are poets a good ballgame companion?

   • I write from Caracas, the murder capital of the world, where I’ve been employed by the Leones to score runs and prevent balls from falling in the outfield. Poets historically can be pretty fun ballgame companions, and not only if they are on hallucinogens at a Red Sox/Yankees game like Ted Berrigan and Harris Schiff in the great Yo-Yo’s with Money.

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   Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction. Robert Frost (1968). “Selected prose of Robert Frost”. When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher.