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This Week’s Doggerel
September 14, 2026
A Clubber for All People
A salute to the man, Laurence Tero,
Of The A-Team and Rocky, our hero
A native South Sider
Though a smidge off his slider
I pity the fool rates him a zero.
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“Stars and Strikes”
Ten years ago, Dan Epstein followed up his book on 1970s baseball (Big Hair and Plastic Grass, 2010) with another focusing specifically on the Bicentennial Year of 1976. Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of...
This Week’s Doggerel
September 8, 2026
Fair or Foul?
by Dan Valenti
Was it fair or foul?
Only a burst of lime will tell.
If the sphere hits the line
The pitcher will scowl.
If it misses, the batter will howl.
If it misses, the pitcher is Cle...
This Week’s Doggerel
August 31, 2026
If God Invented Baseball
by E. Ethelbert Miller
If God invented baseball
There would be no stealing
no balks, no wild pitches or intentional
walks. There would be no pitch-outs,
foul balls or errors. Ther...
This Week’s Doggerel
August 24, 2026
Found Doggerel
Found by Greg Simetz
From The Daily Globe, July 14, 1908
It is a game of inches
and iron wills
this sultry Tuesday afternoon.
Two thousand breathless fans
watched the Nationals scratch and...
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