[Glenn Wright]

Sports has always played a big part in poetry. Not only Homer, but Pindar celebrated athletic excellence. Vergil’s Aeneid devotes a whole book to a boat race. Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat” is of debatable literary merit, but Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young” is first rate. The value of sports as a microcosm of human behavior governed by rules and judged by a referee makes it an irresistible theme for poets.

[Roger Slater]

"Casey at the Bat" is hard to dislike.

[Carl Copeland]

Originally Posted by R. S. Gwynn

... there may be a poem about pickleball about to be written.

https://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showt...ght=pickleball

[Tony Barnstone]

Sam, Normally, I would try to weigh in, but I am well and truly and utterly and more ignorant of golf. On baseball, happy to say at Whittier we have an institute dedicated to studying the sport and its relation to literature among other things https://www.whittier.edu/baseballinstitute

[R. S. Gwynn]

Glenn, true but ancient. Where's today?

Carl, I can't find the poem.

Tony, baseball fans, for me, tend to be snooty about their knowledge of the game. Frost did dream of becoming a baseball player, as did many kids.

[Jim Moonan]

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The Immaculate Inning
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[Carl Copeland]

Originally Posted by R. S. Gwynn

Carl, I can't find the poem.

Ok, it only mentions pickleball, but we’re getting there …

[Glenn Wright]

Originally Posted by Roger Slater

"Casey at the Bat" is hard to dislike.

I like it, Roger. I’m just not going to try to explicate it.

[Glenn Wright]

Originally Posted by R. S. Gwynn

Glenn, true but ancient. Where's today?

Looks like Tony has your list.

[Alexandra Baez]

I wasn’t familiar with the golf references, so all that was lost on me, but beyond that, I feel that I really have missed the premise of this poem. The two italicized intro lines have me particularly puzzled. My overall sense is of a fairly flippant fantasy about Frost that shows off with a sprinkling of famous references from his poems.