From JPBizDirect’s Blog, which considers “JapaneseTrends, Culture, and Business”:
In the meantime, we’re in the throes of spring training. Unless you’re one of those hardcore fantasy baseball players (like Paul Rudd’s character in Knocked Up), in which case you’re studying everyone to determine who’ll make the cut on your personal team, there’s not much for the average fan to do right now except wait and anticipate – and possibly check out this book: Baseball Haiku.
Yes, you read that right. Subtitled “The Best Haiku Ever Written About the Game”, this 2007 anthology has collected more than 200 baseball-themed haiku poems from famous Japanese and American authors, including Masaoka Shiki (a master of the form who actually created the word haiku) and Jack Kerouac.The website for the book’s publisher, Norton Independent, says, “Like haiku, [baseball] is concerned with the nature of the seasons: joyous in the spring, thrilling in summer’s heat, ripening with the descent of fall, and remembered fondly in winter.”
Works for me.
is available on Amazon.com,
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