Top O' the Inning to Ya! Okay, I can't take credit for that (and I am not sure I want to), but if you are Irish and love baseball, maybe head on over to the Irish American Baseball Society website and learn about the great contributions the Irish have made to professional baseball.
Even in such a mundane moment as waiting and standing at third, how he prepared himself for all possible scenarios that could happen once the pitcher released the next pitch could determine whether he was left standing on third and missing out on an opportunity or if his team won by one run.
Inspired by a Facebook page, I wrote the two sonnets below. The first is somewhat blunt in getting to the point (well, as blunt as poetry will let you get when trying to work in rhymes). The second was an exercise in taking the artistic, more subtle side of me out for a ride. Enjoy.... Continue Reading →
After nearly two years of inactivity (sitting on third, if you don't mind a bad joke), I'm back with this blog. I've changed the platform it is on as well as the look, and I look forward to the fresh start that a new season brings. I'm also going to give the short daily poems... Continue Reading →
by Thomas Keenan Baseball Styles Poems are a style I created where there are three stanzas with three lines in each and three words per line. The pitch comes, The ball goes, Game is over. The reporters come, The story goes, On the cover. Games will come, Heros will go, Stories last forever. ----------------- Baseball... Continue Reading →
by Thomas Keenan Baseball Styles Poems are a style I created where there are three stanzas with three lines in each and three words per line. Fathers to son, Game is past, With great joy. Under the sun, Days are past, As a boy. Grandpa to grandson, Memories are past, Like a toy. ------------------- Hot... Continue Reading →
There is some thing special about minor league baseball. On Sunday, my wife and I took our two sons to see the Lehigh Valley IronPigs play at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania. They are in the middle of their second season as the Philadelphia Phillies triple-A team (yeah, yeah, I know I am rooting for future enemies... Continue Reading →
by Thomas Keenan Baseball Styles Poems are a style I created where there are three stanzas with three lines in each and three words per line. Hit the ball, Start to run, With some clout. Catch the ball, On the run, Amidst the shout. Throw the ball, Stop the run, Man is out. ------------------- A... Continue Reading →
by Sean Lilly I have a friend (we’ll call him Adam) who often gets premium tickets to Red Sox games, and he loves to tell me about them. I am a Mets’ fan, but I’ve lived in Massachusetts long enough to know the sublime pleasure of sitting in the stands at Fenway of a summer’s... Continue Reading →
by Tom Keenan In high school, for some reason, I thought it would be really interesting to write a long poem about a baseball team. That poem turned out to be almost 700 lines long and almost 5,000 words (I really didn't date much in high school). It took about four months to write. I... Continue Reading →
Standing at Third 