Center Field Grasses
Poems from Baseball
Published on 26. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-7864-6705-1 (ISBN)
Description
Over 200 poems of three kinds: works about individuals, parodies of the great poets and poems, and works fixing critical or mystical moments in the careers of major leaguers. A great way to pique interest in poetry!
Reviews / Votes
"a terrific collection...highly recommended"-The Book Report; "a wonderful effort...quite remarkable"-VOYA; "many of [the poems] are quite good...poems on players are often playful, a lot of fun"-Elysian Fields Quarterly.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
231 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-6705-1 (9780786467051)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
The late Gene Fehler was the author of 12 books, including three poetry collections from McFarland.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part One: Up Close and Personal
Backyard Glory
Fielder's Mitt
Old Autographs
Sleeping Over
Contest Winner: June, 1955
Error, Little League
A Father's Dreams
Two-Strike Bunt
Sammy Cayson, Cucumbers, and Me
Scouting Reports
My First Baseball Cards
In October
If Poets Were Baseball Players
Rainy Night Baseball
After Being Outhit by My Sons
Chocolate Malteds
When the Hurt Begins
Dice Baseball
Shortshop, Making the Tag
Rain Delay
Rain Delay, the Aftermath
Strawberries
Summer Paradise: Yankees, 1956
Sunday Evening
Tommy Hunter Tells Why He Was Kind to Walter Miller
Throwing It Back
Karl Bailey's Ground Rule
Line-Up
Pitchers and Poets
Old Man Parker's Vacant Lot
Hero
Artificial Baseball
Ballplayer
Church League Softball for the "Over Forties"
Center Field Grasses
Winner
No Hit Pitcher, Staying Loose
The Summer That Dreams Forgot
Snow Baseball
With the Game on the Line
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Baseball Game
Watching the Montgomery Rebels Play Baseball at Patterson Field
Throwing Rainbows from Deep Short
Left-Handed Poetry
First Time at Bat
Belated Thanks to "Bud" Bull, My First Baseball Coach
Christmas Eve, 1957
Ever Reaching
Wordsworth Never Lost at Baseball
Graveyard
He Might Even Win
Bubby's Error
Ever Young
Coach Chose Me
The Day the Bear Died
Immortals
Veteran Ballplayer
Deathbed Showdown
Part Two: Parodies from the Classics
To Bunt, or Not to Bunt
But I Was One and Twenty
The Cubbies of Chicago
A Red-Faced Father
The Cub Star
Ebbets Field
In Late-
The Ball Leaps Up
I Marvel at the Ways of Ryne
I Have a Rendezvous This Fall
The Charge of the Mighty Wade
An Over-the-Hill Pinch Hitter
To Jose Canseco
A Certain Slant of Curve
Casey and the Dome
If God Were a Baseball Pitcher
Believe Me, If All Those Enduring Old Arms
Larrupin' Lou Gehrig
Here's to the All-Star
Knuckleball
Adcock Miss'd Me
Baseball of You I Sing
Reflections on a Pitchers' Duel
Grabbing an Illegal Bat at Yankee Stadium
The Bench-Warmer
To My Fans, on Becoming a Free Agent
Baseball's Harmony
Song of the Open Base
The House That Ruth Built
We Real Insecure
Some Keep the Sabbath on the Mound
Out of Luck, Dave Kingman
I Knew a Man Named Stengel
A Noiseless Patient Owner
Baseball Announcers
Don Larsen's Perfect Game
Is Our Team Winning?
Night Baseball
Artificial Grass
Tracy Stallard
Polo Hymn
Bleachers
Batting Against Nolan Ryan
Pete Rose Coloring His Hair
Wrigley's Bleacher Bums
Wrigley Field Neighbor
I Never Saw the Babe
On First Looking at a Mantle Homer
The Chickenwirefence Behind My House
To Dale Murphy
Waiting Out a Player Strike
The Lead Rises, the League Falls
The Curve Ball 100 Ricky Henderson
When I Saw the Learn'd Computer
Those Bases on Balls
Timeclock
Free Agent
Casey and the Agent
Part Three: The Players
Henry Aaron
Harry Agganis
Dick Allen 110 Jesus Alou
Ernie Banks
Yogi Berra
Ewe
Blackwell
Steve Blass
Ken Boyer
Jim Brosnan
Lew Burdette
Dean Chance
Roger Clemens
Rocky Colavito
Gavvy Cravath
Rob Deer
Joe DiMaggio
Ryne Duren
Nellie Fox
Joe Garagiola
Bruce Gardner Returns to the Mound
Paul Giel
The Emergence of Kelly Gruber, Spring, 1989
Harvey Haddix
Frank Howard
Ken Hubbs
Catfish Hunter
Bo Jackson
Jackie Jensen
Al Kaline
Paul Kilgus
Ted Kluszewski
Duel with Gary Kolb
Sandy Koufax
Tony Kubek
Frank Lary
Vance Law
Phil Linz
I, McCovey
Denny McLain
Sal Maglie
Mickey Mantle
Juan Marichal
Billy Martin
Willie Mays
Willy Miranda
Don Mossi-Ray Narleski
The Death of Thurman Munson
Dale Murphy
Stan Musial
Ron Northey
Satchel Paige
Camilo Pascual
The Philadelphia Three, Plus One
Jimmy Piersall
Reese and Rizzuto
Jim Rivera
Phil Rizzuto
Robin.Roberts
Brooks Robinson
Pete Rose
Pete Rose
Nolan Ryan
Nolan Ryan
Nolan Ryan
Hank Sauer
Herb Score
Bobby Shantz
Enos Slaughter
Roy Smalley
Ozzie Smith
Warren Spahn
Eddie Stanky
Me1 Stottlemyre
Dick Stuart
Rick Sutcliffe
Ron Swoboda
Pat Tabler
Bobby Thomson
Marv Throneberry
The Elite of Pinch-Hitters
Eddie Waitkus
Vic Wertz
Hoyt Wilhelm
Mitch Williams
Ted Williams
Wilbur Wood
Carl Yastrzemski
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part One: Up Close and Personal
Backyard Glory
Fielder's Mitt
Old Autographs
Sleeping Over
Contest Winner: June, 1955
Error, Little League
A Father's Dreams
Two-Strike Bunt
Sammy Cayson, Cucumbers, and Me
Scouting Reports
My First Baseball Cards
In October
If Poets Were Baseball Players
Rainy Night Baseball
After Being Outhit by My Sons
Chocolate Malteds
When the Hurt Begins
Dice Baseball
Shortshop, Making the Tag
Rain Delay
Rain Delay, the Aftermath
Strawberries
Summer Paradise: Yankees, 1956
Sunday Evening
Tommy Hunter Tells Why He Was Kind to Walter Miller
Throwing It Back
Karl Bailey's Ground Rule
Line-Up
Pitchers and Poets
Old Man Parker's Vacant Lot
Hero
Artificial Baseball
Ballplayer
Church League Softball for the "Over Forties"
Center Field Grasses
Winner
No Hit Pitcher, Staying Loose
The Summer That Dreams Forgot
Snow Baseball
With the Game on the Line
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Baseball Game
Watching the Montgomery Rebels Play Baseball at Patterson Field
Throwing Rainbows from Deep Short
Left-Handed Poetry
First Time at Bat
Belated Thanks to "Bud" Bull, My First Baseball Coach
Christmas Eve, 1957
Ever Reaching
Wordsworth Never Lost at Baseball
Graveyard
He Might Even Win
Bubby's Error
Ever Young
Coach Chose Me
The Day the Bear Died
Immortals
Veteran Ballplayer
Deathbed Showdown
Part Two: Parodies from the Classics
To Bunt, or Not to Bunt
But I Was One and Twenty
The Cubbies of Chicago
A Red-Faced Father
The Cub Star
Ebbets Field
In Late-
The Ball Leaps Up
I Marvel at the Ways of Ryne
I Have a Rendezvous This Fall
The Charge of the Mighty Wade
An Over-the-Hill Pinch Hitter
To Jose Canseco
A Certain Slant of Curve
Casey and the Dome
If God Were a Baseball Pitcher
Believe Me, If All Those Enduring Old Arms
Larrupin' Lou Gehrig
Here's to the All-Star
Knuckleball
Adcock Miss'd Me
Baseball of You I Sing
Reflections on a Pitchers' Duel
Grabbing an Illegal Bat at Yankee Stadium
The Bench-Warmer
To My Fans, on Becoming a Free Agent
Baseball's Harmony
Song of the Open Base
The House That Ruth Built
We Real Insecure
Some Keep the Sabbath on the Mound
Out of Luck, Dave Kingman
I Knew a Man Named Stengel
A Noiseless Patient Owner
Baseball Announcers
Don Larsen's Perfect Game
Is Our Team Winning?
Night Baseball
Artificial Grass
Tracy Stallard
Polo Hymn
Bleachers
Batting Against Nolan Ryan
Pete Rose Coloring His Hair
Wrigley's Bleacher Bums
Wrigley Field Neighbor
I Never Saw the Babe
On First Looking at a Mantle Homer
The Chickenwirefence Behind My House
To Dale Murphy
Waiting Out a Player Strike
The Lead Rises, the League Falls
The Curve Ball 100 Ricky Henderson
When I Saw the Learn'd Computer
Those Bases on Balls
Timeclock
Free Agent
Casey and the Agent
Part Three: The Players
Henry Aaron
Harry Agganis
Dick Allen 110 Jesus Alou
Ernie Banks
Yogi Berra
Ewe
Blackwell
Steve Blass
Ken Boyer
Jim Brosnan
Lew Burdette
Dean Chance
Roger Clemens
Rocky Colavito
Gavvy Cravath
Rob Deer
Joe DiMaggio
Ryne Duren
Nellie Fox
Joe Garagiola
Bruce Gardner Returns to the Mound
Paul Giel
The Emergence of Kelly Gruber, Spring, 1989
Harvey Haddix
Frank Howard
Ken Hubbs
Catfish Hunter
Bo Jackson
Jackie Jensen
Al Kaline
Paul Kilgus
Ted Kluszewski
Duel with Gary Kolb
Sandy Koufax
Tony Kubek
Frank Lary
Vance Law
Phil Linz
I, McCovey
Denny McLain
Sal Maglie
Mickey Mantle
Juan Marichal
Billy Martin
Willie Mays
Willy Miranda
Don Mossi-Ray Narleski
The Death of Thurman Munson
Dale Murphy
Stan Musial
Ron Northey
Satchel Paige
Camilo Pascual
The Philadelphia Three, Plus One
Jimmy Piersall
Reese and Rizzuto
Jim Rivera
Phil Rizzuto
Robin.Roberts
Brooks Robinson
Pete Rose
Pete Rose
Nolan Ryan
Nolan Ryan
Nolan Ryan
Hank Sauer
Herb Score
Bobby Shantz
Enos Slaughter
Roy Smalley
Ozzie Smith
Warren Spahn
Eddie Stanky
Me1 Stottlemyre
Dick Stuart
Rick Sutcliffe
Ron Swoboda
Pat Tabler
Bobby Thomson
Marv Throneberry
The Elite of Pinch-Hitters
Eddie Waitkus
Vic Wertz
Hoyt Wilhelm
Mitch Williams
Ted Williams
Wilbur Wood
Carl Yastrzemski