Robert Stewart

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Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written About The Game<br /> edited by Cor van den Heuvel and Nanae Tamura

issue 18 August 2007

Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written About The Game
edited by Cor van den Heuvel and Nanae Tamura

Every American schoolboy and schoolgirl knows the mock epic, ‘Casey at the Bat’ (which William Schuman made into an opera), and Franklin Adams’s ‘saddest of possible words,/Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance’ (of the Chicago Cubs’ double-play past masters).

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