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This Week's Doggerel
July 13, 2026
All-Star Clerihews #1: Fightin’ Clerihews
Paul Skenes
Abhors blue jeans.
He’d rather stay au courant
With Yves Saint Laurent.
Dillon Dingler
Couldn’t sit through watching The Tingler.
He gets the willies from...
Baseball, the Radio and the Farmer
Ron Halvorson, a regular Bardball contributor, emailed me this memoir of fandom in the Bay Area, and I thought it was too good to break up into smaller segments. Imagine yourself with him up in the green hills of Humboldt County, Cal., rela...
This Week's Doggerel
July 6, 2026
July 4th, 2026
by Fred Lovato
Yamamoto starts
on America’s birthday
Padres’ bats stymied
July 6, 2026
Clerihews for the Yankees
by Doug Kor
Aaron Boone
Runs an annual swoon.
We still wat...
Meet the Clerihew!
Doggerel, which we celebrate on this site, is not high art. In fact, it’s meant to be quick, casual and (sometimes) commemorative of a fleeting event or celebration. The Poetry Foundation defines it thusly: “Bad verse traditionally characte...
This Week's Doggerel
June 29, 2026
Go Play Tennis
by Sam Antonacci
Yeah, it’s a team sport.
If you’re mad about
giving up
two runs
in the ninth
take your ass to
go play tennis
or play an individual sport
this is a team sport
We got...
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