Dancing on the Basepaths: Baseball Poetry and Verse

by Gene Fehler

This work is a three-part collection of baseball poems. Part One, entitled "Baseball Snapshots," has 114 short, untitled poems written in free verse that provide images of "baseball moments" on and off the playing field. Part Two, "A Baseball Potpourri," features 27 longer, titled poems with all but one written in free verse. Many of the poems found in the second part tell stories about particular baseball events in the lives of a variety of fictional people. Part Three, "A Rhymed Player Clerihews," is a compilation of 348 clerihews written about players from the past hundred years. Each of the three parts have an introduction.

119 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2001