Phil Rizzuto, famed shortstop and broadcaster extraordinaire for the New York Yankees, has waxed poetic on America's favorite pastime since the glorious days of Mantle and Maris. For more than a quarter century the Bard of the Booth has captured great moments in baseball - and effortlessly woven them together with essential and often hilarious insights into the human condition. Editors Tom Peyer and Hart Seely have forever captured Rizzuto's unmistakable voice in this collection, which gathers his funniest and most inspiring verses - from comments on Maris getting booed to explications of how the Red Sox control the weather. With an introduction by Roy Blount, Jr., and game stats following each poem, "O Holy Cow!" is a must for baseball fans, Scooter devotees, and everyone interested in major league fun.

Taal / Language : English

Inhoudsopgave:

Foreword		xi
Bobby Murcer
Introduction to the 1993 Edition		xv
Original Editors`Note		xix
Acknowledgments		xxiii
Field of Butterflies		1	(1)
Alienation		2	(1)
To Be Alone		3	(1)
On the Couch with Myself		4	(1)
Chaos		5	(1)
Time and Money		6	(1)
My Secret		7	(1)
And On It Goes		8	(1)
From Slumber I Heard the Men at Work		9	(1)
Hero or the Goat		10	(1)
Imagine		11	(1)
Telly, Cary, and Frank		12	(1)
They Own the Wind		13	(1)
Prayer for the Captain		14	(2)
The Man in the Moon		16	(2)
The Bridge		18	(1)
Poem for The Last Picture Show		19	(1)
Never Say Never		20	(1)
Vincent		21	(1)
To Cut the ``H``		22	(1)
I Never Cried		23	(1)
I Walk with Fear		24	(1)
The Question of White`s Whereabouts		25	(1)
White`s Secret		26	(2)
Forever Young		28	(1)
The Penguin		29	(1)
T-Bone		30	(1)
To Speak with Espy, to Smile with Tears		31	(1)
Message to the Doctor		32	(1)
Spirit of `76		33	(1)
The Way Mattingly Wants Them to Do		34	(1)
Challenge to Youth		35	(1)
Martin`s Rules		36	(1)
O Mickey		37	(2)
Champion		39	(1)
Way Up Here		40	(1)
Giliad		41	(2)
Kubek and Trautwig and Phillips or Powers		43	(2)
Dickie Poem Number One		45	(1)
Dickie Poem Number Two		46	(1)
To Murcer an Explanation		47	(1)
1961 and 1991		48	(1)
Remember When		49	(1)
On Having to Go to Kansas City		50	(1)
My Only Friend, the End		51	(2)
Poem No. 61		53	(2)
A Life for Mickey		55	(2)
Ellie`s Shot		57	(1)
Confrontation		58	(1)
To Murcer, on a Storm Long Ago		59	(1)
Abandoned in a Storm		60	(2)
DiMaggio`s Bat		62	(2)
O What a Huddle Out There		64	(4)
I Really Should Be Going Home		68	(1)
Toying with Seaver, Soaring with Utica		69	(1)
When Your Eyes Start Bouncing		70	(1)
That Voice		71	(1)
The Thirty Rank		72	(1)
No Nokes		73	(1)
Caps, Bees, Jokes, Pags		74	(1)
No Pain		75	(1)
Question to Moore		76	(1)
None of My Business		77	(1)
Clarification		78	(1)
Why I Do What I Do		79	(1)
Haiku		80	(1)
Joe R.		81	(2)
Who?		83	(1)
Poem for Jesse		84	(2)
I Hate Myself		86	(1)
O, I Love to Watch Those Wrestlers!		87	(1)
Incident in an Elevator		88	(2)
Laughter Behind the Tears		90	(1)
Clete Does Eat		91	(1)
Squirrels		92	(1)
Buns		93	(1)
Legs		94	(1)
Rocket Love		95	(1)
The Locked Door		96	(1)
On Journalism		97	(1)
On Capitalism		98	(1)
Fatherhood		99	(1)
Boxes		100	(1)
Golden Years		101	(1)
Sisyphus		102	(1)
Gone and Back		103	(1)
They`re on Reggie		104	(1)
Pressure		105	(1)
On Being in Boston for a One-Game Season		106	(1)
Willie		107	(1)
It`s Different in the Playoffs		108	(1)
Q		109	(1)
Oklahoma		110	(1)
F.Y.I.		111	(1)
Concord		112	(1)
Paul Revere		113	(1)
Bobby		114	(1)
Mythkill		115	(1)
Bubbles		116	(3)
California		119	(1)
Greenwich Time		120	(2)
Lake Effect		122	(1)
Colorado		123	(1)
Beaches		124	(1)
Zamboanga		125	(1)
This Planet Warm and Human		126	(2)
Luck of the Irish		128	(2)
These Heaters		130	(1)
Buccinator Novi Temporis		131	(1)
Glasses		132	(1)
My Nose		133	(2)
Dream Day		135	(1)
Symmetry		136	(1)
Wait a Minute		137	(1)
Ticktock, the Clock		138	(1)
Mattingly`s Surprise		139	(1)
Unwashed		140	(1)
Go Ahead, Seaver		141	(1)
Thought for Seaver		142	(1)
Instructions for the World		143	(1)
Reversal of Opinion		144	(1)
Observation		145	(1)
To Blow a Story		146	(2)
To Finish a Story		148	(2)
Doom Balloon		150	(1)
Brew		151	(1)
Very Frustrated		152	(1)
I, Witness		153	(1)
The Indelible Smell		154	(1)
Asylum		155	(1)
To the Rescue		156	(1)
Bearing Down		157	(1)
If		158	(1)
Possessions		159	(1)
Surprise Attack		160	(1)
Chess		161	(1)
Hall and Nokes		162	(1)
The Prince		163	(2)
Polonia`s Hair		165	(1)
Mere Anarchy Is Loosed Upon the World		166	(1)
I Stuck My Hand In		167	(1)
Apodosis		168	(1)
Scooter at Bat		169	(4)
Afterword		173	(4)
Publisher`s Note		177

Extra informatie:  Paperback / softback 177 pagina's Januari 2008 236 gram 203 x 135 x 15 mm HARPERCOLLINS

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