Nostalgic Poetry: Spring 2020 Issue of Spitball Magazine
Baseball, of course, is a language of its own, speaking to those who for some divine reason or another hear it clearly and understand. Growing up, I always lost myself in the poetry of Jack Buck's play-by-play on KMOX. Occasionally, Dad would score tickets to a Cardinals game at Busch Stadium, setting up memorable road trips from my hometown in Pinckneyville, Illinois, nearly 75 miles from St. Louis. The farms and fields of the Mississippi River bottoms wrapped around the lon