The Epic Game: A Baseball Sonnet
What is fame?
Pulsonic Baseball Game image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA
The Epic Game
by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole
You’ve heard of Babe, and Tris, and Paige,
The famous Rubes: Marquard, Waddell,
Cap Anson and his brawling age,
Ray Chapman who at twilight fell.
They live forever, stories told,
Wherever baseball has its hold.
But what of them, the av’rage Joes,
Who play the game when day …