My Mother The Shortstop
By Tom Lagasse
2025 E. Ethelbert Miller Prize Winner
Love Song of the Polar Bear Mascot at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
By Martín Espada
Second Place
America’s Favorite Pastime
By Robin Michel
Honorable Mention
The Orioles game at the end of the world
By Michael Kelly IV
2025 Jackie Mitchell Prize Winner
A lost glove and a life’s lesson
By Dennis Anderson
Second Place
A Position
By Seth Kaplan
Honorable Mention
The Good of a Broken Bat
By Kiyoshi Hirawa
2025 Sidd Finch Fiction Prize Winner
Wildlife
By Jim Waltzer
Second Place
Harbor Park 2044
By Eben Bracy
Honorable Mention
Oligo My Own
By Eligio Mares
Steve Perry Pinch-Hits for Steve Perry
By Aarik Danielsen
BART
By Jack Albert
Hope in Baseball
By Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal
Ruth Talks Hitting
By Dana Yost
Braves at Phillies, 10/14/22
By Jared Frank
Grave of the Cracker Jack Boy
By Cynthia Gallaher
Hot Dog Buns Make Great Pillows
By Arlene Somerton Smith
An I.O.U. to Big Klu, 1975
By Michael Gaspeny
The phanatic
Tim Livingston’s poem on the Phillie Phanatic.
The Expos
Paul Doty’s poem on the doomed Expos.
The Errors of Memory
Michael Ward writes about auditioning for The Sandlot—maybe.