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James Finn GarnerWeekly baseball doggerel, served fresh in season.
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This Week’s Doggerel
October 5, 2026
To Everything, There is a Season
by James Finn Garner
After a weekend in the city of beer,
The Pods might be aching, I fear.
Against Mason Miller,
The Crew won a thriller
While locals broke out their camo...
This Week’s Doggerel
September 28, 2026
The Season’s Over
By George Yatchisin
The boys in the house behind us
bat their wiffle balls with abandon
often over the fence between our yards.
Some mornings like mushrooms
the bright white balls bloo...
This Week’s Doggerel
September 21, 2026
Danger On Deck
by Dr. Rajesh C. Oza
Didn’t see them coming:
Attention-seeking italics;
Bregman’s blinding ball.
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September 22, 2026
The Broadway Show League
by James Finn G...
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...
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