Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems Book

	Foreword
	Editor's Acknowledgments
	Editors' Introduction
	The Origin and Purpose of Baseball	3
	Spring Fever	5
	Stealing Home	6
	Spring Training	7
	Little League Tryouts	8
	The Catch	9
	Baseball	10
	The Player	12
	1947	13
	The Retarded Children Play Baseball	15
	Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Remembers Wrigley Field	17
	Sweet Spot	18
	Something I Could Tell You about Love	20
	To Fungo the Torn Ones	21
	The Baseball Boys of 1964	23
	It Ain't Over ...	27
	Instant Out	28
	Baseball Fields Seen from the Air	29
	Cardinals in Spring	30
	Stop Action	34
	How to Hit a Home Run	37
	Blyleven's Fourth Shutout, June, 1985	39
	Baseball	40
	Black Ink	41
	A Dream of Third Base	43
	Glory	45
	Aesthetics	47
	Ode to Apple Pie	49
	A Softball Game	51
	Listening to a Baseball Game	53
	Singles	54
	Players	56
	Crowd at the Stadium	58
	In the Red Seats	59
	Supernatural	61
	Minor League Rainout, Iowa	63
	Polish-American Night, Tiger Stadium	65
	Biographical Note	67
	Softball	68
	Night Baseball, 1947	70
	A Baseball Game	73
	September Pears	74
	The Gamer	75
	Photo of a Minor League Baseball Team, ca. 1952	76
	Where Baseball's the Only Game in Town	77
	Baseball Cards	78
	Geronimo at Short	80
	Something about Certain Old Baseball Fields	82
	Night Baseball in the American West	83
	Is Reality One or Many?	85
	Southpaw	87
	Returning to the Field	88
	The Big League	90
	Visiting My Boyhood Friend after His Stroke	92
	Hits	93
	Isn't it pretty to think so?	95
	Catch	96
	Old Baseball Found under a Bush	98
	Everything But Everything	99
	Limited Power	101
	True Story	105
	Baseball Haiku	106
	Dreams Should Not Dog Great Center Fielders	107
	The Career of Lou Proctor	109
	Question and Answer	111
	World Series, 1968, Southeast Asia	113
	Short History of a Baseball	116
	Play by Play	119
	My Father, on the Day He Died	121
	Baseball in Ohio	123
	Betting on the Muse	125
	Telephone Call	128
	Williams in Autumn	129
	October Play	131
	Night Baseball	132
	My Last Hit	134
	Dream of a Hanging Curve	135
	America without Baseball	137
	Tired of Loss and Sin	140
	Winter at the Ball Field	144
	World Series, Game 5	147
	Softball Dreams	148
	Voices of the Sea	150
	Archives	152
	Poem for My Father	154
	If You Know Me at All	156
	Final Play	157
	Why I Love Baseball	158
	Line Drive Caught by the Grace of God	160
	Listening to the Ballgame	162
	The Cure	164
	A Dharma Talk by Johnny Roseboro, Boulder, Colorado, March 23, 1983	166
	Carolina League Old Timers Game	168
	Pearly Babe	170
	Sweet	171
	Question: If You Had Only 24 Hours to Live, What Would You Do?	173
	Shall I Compare Thee to a Triple Play?	175
	Solid Single	177
	Looking for the Baseball	178
	Last Baseball Dream of the Season	182
	Acknowledgments	185
	Contributors	195