Baseball is poetry:

every game a poem

each inning, mirrored stanzas;

at-bats and pitches, verbs;

players and positions, nouns ;

balls and strikes, vowels and consonants;

crack of bat on ball and snap of mitt,

assonanze and onomatopea;

fielding, alliteration;

snap-throws, similes;

running the bases, rhyme and rhythm;

glove-leather redolence, sonority;

the double play, enjambment;

home, a metaphor;

a homerun means we go home happy;

life, a pass-time, passing time until next spring,

a poem, life between the lines extending

past the dark foul pole to infinity.