the crowd at the ball game…

from Daisy Fried via poetryfoundation.org

you know, all this baseball/poetry stuff makes us nostalgic for one of our favorite poet/baseball blog posts of all-time, courtesy of VM favorite Jim Behrle.  So here’s a repost of a posting of Behrle’s “projected wiffle-ball lineups.”

New York School

1. “Everyday” Edmund Berrigan, 2b
2. Brandon “The Chef” Downing, LF
3. Anselm “The Project” Berrigan, ss
4. Jordan “3D” Davis, 3b
5. Mitch “The Hit Dog” Highfill, C
6. Anastasios “Buzzsaw” Kozaitis, CF
7. David “The Booganator” Kirschenbaum, 1b
8. Brendan “Lungs” Lorber, RF
9. Douglas “Kid Zinc” Rothschild, P

“Bowery” Brenda Coultas
Cori “Don’t Call Me Shirley” Copp
Nick “The Quick” Piombino
Tracy “The Ace” McTague
Drew “Let’s Play Two” Gardner
“Can’t Catch” Katie Degentesh
“Bollywood” Gary Sullivan
Nada “Eli” Gordon

Coach: Charles “Charlie Hustle” Bernstein

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1. Leslie “Leave ‘Em Sorry” Scalapino, 2b
2. “What about” Bob Perelman, 3b
3. Barrett “Detroit Dinger” Watten, 1b
4. Ron “The American Tree” Silliman, CF
5. Charles “Buffalo Wings” Bernstein, LF
6. “Wild” Lyn Hejinian, ss
7. “Thinly Veiled” Rae Armantrout ,RF
8. Clark “Coolio” Coolidge, C
9. Bruce “The Boss!” Andrews, P