* I think that I shall never see, a poem lovely as a baseball tee

March 5, 2009

One of the more unusual sites I’ve come across is Bardball.com, which, according to co-creator James Finn Garner, is “dedicated to bringing back baseball doggerel, the quick and easy poetry that used to show up in beat writers’ baseball columns a century ago.”

In a letter, Garner — author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories — explained that the site was created in 2007, “when a bunch of friends began swapping limericks about Barry Bonds’ chemical situation.

“We just want to have fun, and we’ve found an interesting way that fans can express their love of players and baseball through songs and poems.”

The site is still evolving. Bardball includes a few videos and songs and will soon launch a podcast, which Garner said would feature “current poems and come we’ve dug up from the past.”

(By the way, Garner’s partner in creating the site is Stuart Shea, author of Wrigley Field: The Unauthorized Biography. Shea, writing about Wrigley? Somehow that just seems wrong.)

2006 WINTER MEETINGS #1 (Lake Buena Vista, FL)

By Gary Gillette

Winter Meetings blues.
Gray twi-nighter — Disney sucks.
Pestilential swamp.

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