They broke out the poetry for Willie Mays on Monday, at the ballpark at Willie Mays Plaza. Appropriate, since San Francisco is a town of poetry, and Mays was a fellow who inspired poetry.

Bettmann/CORBIS Baseball is a game of unpredictable actions occurring within strictly defined guidelines—innings, strikes and outs. It should be perfect for poetry. But there has yet to be a ...

There are some great pictures there too. Lifetime, I think this puts the combination of beat poetry and baseball at 1-1. The one win? Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Baseball Canto,” which is the best and ...

In spite of that mania, Mazur says she resisted the temptation to write any poems about baseball because she worried about the seeming cliche that the game is a metaphor for life. “I knew I ...