In the 1937 All-Star Game
Earl Averill bounced a
Snake blown drive off Dizzy Dean's toe.
Ol'Diz was never the same, and
This is why:
He already knew that
The toe bone is connected to the head bone.
What he was still too dumb to know is:
The sky has a limit.
After this discovery, it was all down hill.
He was a plowhorse gone to seed,
A crackerjack joke in a war museum.
Soon he learned that you could occupy
Two space
At the same time:
Your feet could be summering back in Texas
Flapping like two jackrabbit ears,
While your right arm hung over an enormous butte
On Chicago's North Side,
And your fingers trembled in the cold wind.
He went on on though, a true fisherman, hugging
The shore of Lake Michigan, casting for catfish
In the Texarkana.
Baseball I Gave You All the Best Years Of My Life
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