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    9-Carat Baseball Poems: Roger Connor, Ted Williams and Others
    9-Carat Baseball Poems: Roger Connor, Ted Williams and Others
    9-Carat Baseball Poems: Roger Connor, Ted Williams and Others
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    9-Carat Baseball Poems: Roger Connor, Ted Williams and Others

    By Thomas M. McDade

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    Fifty-seven poems reflecting my interest in baseball and those who played the game, major, minor and sandlot.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas M. McDade
    Release dateApr 7, 2014
    ISBN9781311035158
    9-Carat Baseball Poems: Roger Connor, Ted Williams and Others
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    Thomas M. McDade

    Thomas M. McDade is a seventy-seven-year-old former programmer/analyst residing in Fredericksburg, VA, previously, in CT & RI. He's married, has no kids, and no pets. McDade is a 1973 graduate of Fairfield University. He served two tours of duty in the U.S. Navy. tommmcd2000@yahoo.com

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      9-Carat Baseball Poems - Thomas M. McDade

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      9-Carat Baseball Poems: Roger Connor, Ted Williams and Others: by Thomas M. McDade

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      Copyright 2014 Thomas M. McDade

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      Acknowledgements

      Elysian Fields Quarterly, Pawtucket Times, The Fan, Heroes from Hackland, baseball-almanac.com, Ted Williams: a Tribute, Ted Williams: The Pursuit of Excellence, Fairfield University Alumni News, Bardball, Slow Train Literary Quarterly, Red Sox Journal, SABR Newsletter, Spitball, Sport Literate, The Sports Page, Ken*Again, Poem, Nerve Cowboy, Our Wounds, Hobo Jungle, Barr’s Postcard News, First Class, Twenty-Six Degrees of Gray, Bean Feast, Bibliofilos, Listening Eye, Zisk, Fight These Bastards, Aethlon, The Cape Rock, Aethlon, Line Drives, Concrete Wolf

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      Gratitude

      Merritt Clifton – Author

      A Double Play of Underground Novels, Birch Book Press

      Baseball Stories for Boys and Girls (Past Puberty)

      Samisdat Press

      Robert L. Harrison, Author

      Green Fields and White Lines

      McFarland & Company

      New York Baseball Poems

      Samisdat Press

      Dave Baldwin, Author

      Snake Jazz

      http://www.snakejazz.com/

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      Quotations

      When you use the words mystique and aura,

      those are dancers in a nightclub, those are not

      things we concern ourselves with on the ballfield.

      --Curt Schilling on facing the New York Yankees

      in the 2001 World Series.

      And it is attempting to hit that hard object, both speeding

      and changing parabolas in mid-flight, that helps men

      confront their own mortality.

      --Merritt Clifton: Baseball and American Manhood

      Baseball and the Game of Ideas

      Essays for the Serious Fan

      The Grassy Knoll is smaller than I thought.

      The Book Depository is closer than I thought.

      Shit, I could have hit him with a baseball.

      --Mike DeLeo: The Coincidentalist Letters, Number 1

      Dallas, TX 12/29/93

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      About the Gravestone

      From The Sports Page, August 2001

      Sportscope with Jim Senich.

      The scene was surreal. It will be frozen in time for those who attended the event. Two priests, the Reverends Joseph Looney (St. Margaret Church) and Joseph Gorman (St. Leo the Great), were about to deliver prayers over the grave of Roger Connor…Waterbury native…member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

      The burial site is at St. Joseph’s Cemetery about midway up a steep hill. Suddenly appearing at the top, players dressed in uniforms of the 1800’s. Players as they would have looked when Connor was playing. They were paying tribute to a comrade from their era.

      A group of about 150 people gasped. It was a scene out of Field of Dreams. That’s how the day began on Saturday, June 30, one day before the birthday of the great baseball slugger, who wowed

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