Stephen Cormany - "Culture vs. Nature"

Every so often in Yankee Stadium
Mantle or Murcer had to contend with the monuments.
A long drive would get sandwiched between
The Sultan of Swat
The Iron Horse and
The Yankee Clipper.
Mickey, if he had been given to such gab
May have called the protuberances
The Stonehenge Pinball Machine.
On the other hand,
Take the case of Cleveland's Municipal Stadium:
No monumenge there
Nay, in fact before 1946
No fence.
In a game against Philadelphia
In the early thirties
Rangy Earl Averill
Chasing a towering drive off the bat of
Al Simmons
Was bowled over by a polar bear.



Baseball I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life
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