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The Yankees Are Coming

The Yankees Are Coming

But Do They Have a Poet in the Booth?

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The Yankees are advancing in the playoffs! Reason enough, if you ask me, to recall O Holy Cow! The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto, edited by Tom Peyer and Hart Seely, to whose 1993 edition I wrote an introduction. Scooter, as he was called in his playing days and (even by himself) ever after, entered the Baseball Hall of Fame in l994. He was a good player, but not one of the all-time greats. He was, however, the only shortstop turned TV announcer who spoke in free verse. To give you an idea of how unforced Rizzuto’s lines flowed, let me try a stanza or two myself:

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