[LM_NET] Baseball poem for opening day

["Nick Glass (TeachingBooks.net)" <nick@TEACHINGBOOKS.NET>]

Highest praise for this audio recording that Doug Bancks mentioned. I  
have played through my audio cassette version of this evening's  
performances -- so spectacular. But I must say that I'm very biased:  
Roger Angell and Bart Giamatti are two people who have had a huge  
influence on my life. Amazing minds and passion for life and baseball!

I found the recording on the symphony space website: 
https://www.symphonyspace.org/estore/item/21 
  (but I wonder if this is an excerpt).

One other baseball title that I think is about the best book on simply  
loving baseball (for upper middle and high school) is Phil Hoose's  
Perfect Once Removed.  Hilarious. So on target -- this memoir about a  
boy who lives for the game, has no playing talent, but has the game  
help him find a place in his new school and community.

Happy opening day week for everyone that is as excited about this as  
I.  Cheers,

Nick
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On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:32 AM, LM_NET automatic digest system wrote:

> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:06:24 -0500
> From:    Doug Bancks <dbancks@FAIRMONT.K12.MN.US>
> Subject: Re: Baseball poem for opening day
>
> 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 prog=
> rams 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  
> contain=
> ed 2 cassette tapes. Side 3 had poetry, but truth be told the  
> writing throu=
> ghout 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  
> Librar=
> y, 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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