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Hi,
There was a recent post about baseball poetry, in this case for opening day. I 
would like to toss out (overhand :)) another possible resource.

In the early 1990's Listening Library published a series of audio tape programs 
titled "Selected Shorts." These were short stories and poems recorded live at 
Symphony space. Volume IV in the series (1991) was entirely devoted to baseball. It 
was called Selected Shorts celebrates baseball. It contained 2 cassette tapes. Side 
3 had poetry, but truth be told the writing throughout was so evocative it all had 
poetic qualities. The contents are listed below. It's a beautiful piece of work.

Unfortunately I could not find this product available from Listening Library, or 
any place at this time.

Side 1
PLAY BY PLAY (intro) by Roger Angell and A. Bartlett Giamatti.
THE GLORY OF THEIR TIMES (excerpt) by Lawrence S. Ritter
HUB FANS BID KID ADIEU (beginning) from Assorted Prose by John Updike.

Side 2
HUB FANS BID KID ADIEU (concluding)

Side 3
COBB WOULD HAVE CAUGHT IT from In the Rose of Time by Robert Fitzgerald.
PITCHER and BASE STEALER from The Orb Weaver by Robert Francis.
POLO GROUNDS by Rolfe Humphries
ATTITUDE  from Happy to be here by Garrison Keillor

Side 4
GAME SIX from Five Seasons by Roger Angell
THE GREEN FIELDS OF THE MIND by A. Bartlett Giamatti

Doug Bancks
Library Media Specialist
Fairmont Jr/Sr High School
900 Johnson Street
Fairmont, MN 56031
dbancks@fairmont.k12.mn.us<mailto:dbancks@fairmont.k12.mn.us>
507-235-4107





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