Baseball Poems

Poems on baseball are written by sports poets. Now who is a sports poet? Anyone who can connect two words together I suppose. It doesn’t take much to master language. Just a knack of getting words right and have a little rhyming sense.

A famous example of a baseball rhyming poem is “Casey at the Bat”. The poem starts off with a little excitement and anticipation but ends with the author building it to a tempo that is seldom seen in other forms of poetry. Finally the anti-climax comes when Casey fails to hit a home run.

This famous baseball poem was written by a poet who was fed up with failing at the sport of baseball. He tried to express his emotions via words and succeeded. This is a classic example of the man who if he has lost a foot in the battle thanks God that now he has one shoe to wear only.

A baseball poem parents approve of is appropriate for kids. No one ought to be carrying around some of the vulgar poems found on the Internet while at school. They are a disgrace to the school’s civic sense of propriety. Any kid carrying around a poem that has swear words in it and insults the game and decency ought to be expelled straight away.

Baseball poems and songs are abundantly available. Some are light while others are serious. Some are funny while others are somber. They build a mood around a situation or topic. And then the weaving of words works its magic.

Short baseball poems can be made on the spot. A good example of short kids baseball poems would be: “I hit the ball / It was a Home Run / But I was to fall / As I had actually hit none!...”

Baseball player poems often lampoon a player in a caricature way. They idealize or demonize. “Casey at the Bat” is a poem that both raises up the player at the beginning and then knocks him of his pedestal.

Limerick poems on baseball are the Woody Allenesque poems of the poetry world. They are funny, cute and have the battery powered energy of Bugs Bunny. Most of them are humorous in character. There are a few which border on the nonsense verse style.

Therefore a poem about baseball ought to satisfy three things: Style, Form and Content. Miss any one and it is not a proper poem. Style means a sense of flare in the words. They should set the readers head on fire. Form means a proper proportion in the words. They ought not be redundant or superfluous. Content is of course the king of poetry. It is the meat or kernel of the poem.

If in a poem baseball is the topic under discussion than it comes under the range of poems about baseball.

One of the most famous poems about baseball happens to be a cinquain poem for kids about baseball. It satisfies every condition that is necessary for a proper baseball poem to gain entry into the immortal world of baseball literature. And that counts for a lot.