Oldtimer's Game: Poems of Baseball and Memory

Baseball is said to be the sport most closely associated with memory, and an oldtimer’s game—indeed, his major sport—is remembering. So the appearance of a book like this one is not only predictable but even inevitable. Boyhood heroes, high school teammates, major league games and players, a fan’s recollections of how the game was and is, slo-pitch softball, fantasy baseball—it’s all here in this enjoyable and provocative book about how tightly interwoven baseball has been in the author’s life and career. As one of the poems states, baseball is a lifetime love.