In baseball, as in much poetry, beauty comes from tension.
Groundrules and boundaries confine those who would play, but the
best find ways to exploit their strictures, and just as the daring
base runner takes second on a fly to right, the practiced poet
trips the sleepy reader with a surprise rhyme, bold line break, or
a jarring reversal of foot. Its no surprise, then, that hardball
has a larger body of literature than other sports, or that
aficionados are more likely than others to quote lines of verse in
support of the game they love. This is Tim Peelers second book of
poems from baseball. It contains some of his most moving and
best-crafted poetry. Starting with time-honored themes--fathers and
sons, baseball and time, memory and the nation, team and player and
loyalty--the poet adapts the universal to the local and personal,
proving that baseball, with its easy accommodation of reflection,
remains a powerful tool for mining our individual and collective
history.
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