My Baseball Jersey: A Baseball Sonnet

Whose name is on the back?

Pulsonic Baseball Game image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA

My Baseball Jersey

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

I wear your number and your name,
Though long you are from dugout gone.
And when weigh they your total game,
One season short decide you’ve shone.
But I remember, and I rue
That never did you get your due.
You practiced till your shot was sure,
Whipped balls whizzed ‘c…