Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems deserves a Hall of Fame nomination for the sheer number and variety of poems it anthologizes for the first time. The strongest praise, however, goes to the quality of the collection. For fans of the game's history, there are poems that take us inside specific games or seasons, consider the importance of Mantle or Ruth, talk about the tragedy of Donnie Moore, and relate the importance of Ernie Harwell to an elderly fan.

Line after line, like baseball itself game after game and season after season, these poems manage to make the old and the familiar new and surprising. Feb 21, 2017 Faustine Jacquier rated it it was amazing.

Brooke Horvath is a professor of English at Kent State University and the . Only 2 of the poems out of the 100 in this book, rhyme

Brooke Horvath is a professor of English at Kent State University and the author of two collections of poetry - In a Neighborhood of Dying Light and Consolation at Ground Zero. Only 2 of the poems out of the 100 in this book, rhyme. I asked one of the authors why not more rhyming poems. He hasn,t answered yet.

Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems deserves a Hall of Fame nomination for the sheer number and variety of poems it anthologizes for the first time. Brooke Horvath is a professor of English at Kent State University and the author of two collections of poetry - In a Neighborhood of Dying Light and Consolation at Ground Zero. Brooke Horvath is a professor of English at Kent State University and the author of two collections of poetry?In a Neighborhood of Dying Light and Consolation at Ground Zero.

Line after line - like baseball itself, game after game and season after season - these poems manage to make the old and the familiar new and surprising.

The poem Baseball Almanac enjoyed the most from Line Drives : 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems was written by the late-great Kansas City Royal stopper Dan Quisenberry who essentially examined & explained his life through "Baseball Cards"-page 78-79 & reads in part: th. .

The poem Baseball Almanac enjoyed the most from Line Drives : 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems was written by the late-great Kansas City Royal stopper Dan Quisenberry who essentially examined & explained his life through "Baseball Cards"-page 78-79 & reads in part: the second one I look boyish with a gap-toothed smile the smile of a guy who has it his way expects it I rode the wave's crest of pennent and trophies I sat relaxed with one thought "I can do this" you don't see me stay up till two reining in nerves or post-game hands that shook involuntarily

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Brooke Horvath, Tim Wiles, eds. (2002). Line drives: 100 contemporary baseball poems. Poet Robert Gibb's "The Homestead Trilogy," now completed, takes its place alongside "The Homewood Trilogy" in the canon of Pittsburgh literature. ISBN 978-0-8093-2440-8. Poet Robert Gibb's "The Homestead Trilogy," now completed, takes its place alongside "The Homewood Trilogy" in the canon of Pittsburgh literature