Another of the classic BaseballInk baseball haikus….

Circling the bases
The corners of the diamond
Roundtripper touchstones

By Dan Zamudio

Bat boy

Steady
breeze rustles his
oversized uniform
as he kneels outside our home team
dugout

and waits
patiently for
the moment when both hands
will hold smooth pine still trembling from
a hit.

Confucius says

Only two things can last forever:

an old baseball mitt
with softened leather
and a double-header
delayed by
stormy weather.

Baseball Riddle

A ll professional
L eagues forbid its
U se.
M ade to be
I ndestructible.
N ever cracks.
U nfilled inside the
M iddle.

B aseball’s
A ttempt to save
T rees.

Dan Zamudio is a Chicago writer and lifelong Cub fan who recently forced his tired girlfriend to take three
rolls of action photos while he played catch with strangers on Wrigley Field after a long tour. Dan’s baseball poems can also be seen in the 2001 issue of SABR’s “The National Pastime”.

(originally published in Baseball Ink Vol. 1, No. 3 - December 2000)

Another classic BaseballInk.com baseball limerick…was it really blood on Curt Schilling’s sock in Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS against the Yankees?

There once was a pitcher named Schilling
Whose Game 6 performance was thrilling
But many an eye
Thought it red dye
Not the blood it was claimed he was spilling

Another classic BaseballInk.com baseball limerick:

There’s a slugger in baseball named Barry
Who hits homers so often it’s scary
But he gets annoyed
When you ask him ’bout ‘roids
So if you interview him please be wary!

Another classic BaseballInk.com baseball limerick:

There once was a Yankee named Jeter
Who proclaimed he was not a tax cheater
“I owe no more than the
next guy from Florida
who knows how to handle a heater!”