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The fifty-eight year Easter Monday baseball rivalry between North
Carolina State University and Wake Forest University had a the
traditional fraternity celebration known as the PIKA Ball, held on
the NC State campus, that followed it on Monday evening. Told from
the view point of sports journalists, players, fans, and PIKA
members, the narrative reveals the excitement and developing
strategies as the contest traverses several baseball eras. At the
height of its popularity, the game drew astonishingly large crowds
of spectators, many of whom were absentee government workers,
providing the impetus for the North Carolina State Legislature to
declare Easter Monday to be a state holiday.
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.
Set on what remains of a small family farm in the Blue Ridge
foothills of Western North Carolina, ROUGH BEAST depicts the quirky
ascension of Larry Ledbetter from small-time country gangster to
unwilling literary lion. Larry's voice is the engine that drives
the sometimes comic but often violent narrative. In his attempt to
come to grips with both personal tragedies and his inexplicable
success, Larry reveals his vulnerability and shared humanity.
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