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A Ballad of Baseball Burdens

By Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)

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Poetry

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Excerpt: The burden of hard hitting. Slug away // Like Honus Wagner or like Tyrus Cobb. // Else fandom shouteth: Who said you could play? // Back to the jasper league, you minor slob! // Swat, hit, connect, line out, goet on the job. // Else you shall feel the brunt of fandom's ire // Biff, bang it, clout it, hit it on the knob - // This is the end of every fan's desire. // The burden of good pitching. Curved or straight. // Or in or out, or haply up or down, // To puzzle him that standeth by the plate, // To lessen, so to speak, his bat-renown: // Like Christy Mathewson or Miner Brown, // So pitch that every man can but admire // And offer you the freedom of the town - // This is the end of every fan's desire. // The burden of loud cheering. O the sounds! // The tumult and the shouting from the throats // Of forty thousand at the Polo Grounds // Sitting, ay, standing sans their hats and coats. // A mighty cheer that possibly denotes // That Cub or Pirate fat is in the fire; // Or, as H. James would say, We've got their goats - // This is the end of every fan's desire. // The burden of a pennant. O the hope, // The tenuous hope, the hope that's half a fear, // The lengthy season and the boundless dope, // And the bromidic, Wait until next year. // O dread disgrace of trailing in the rear, // O Piece of Bunting, flying high and higher // That next October it shall flutter here: // This is the end of every fan's desire. // ENVOY // Ah, Fans, let not the Quarry but the Chase // Be that to which most fondly we aspire! // For us not Stake, but Game; not Goal, but Race - // THIS is the end of every fan's desire. // Franklin P. Adams...

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Title: A Ballad of Baseball Burdens  
Author: Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)
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Language: English
Subject: Fiction, Poetry, Verse drama
Collection: Poetry Collection
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Publisher: World Public Library Association

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