Munson

Munson

By Loren Broaddus

Illustration by Mark Mosley

There is a photograph
of Munson celebrating
the Chambliss walk-off
to win the ’76 American
League pennant.
As a kid, I hated that moment,
my Royals heartbreakingly
defeated by the swashbuckling
Yankees, Munson, the Captain,
not loved at my house
back in that bicentennial
autumn, although later
I remember hearing
of his Ohio plane crash and crying,
all our swashbuckling
momentarily broken. 

Loren Broaddus book of poems, Joe DiMaggio Moves Like Liquid Light, was published in 2019 (Andrews-McMeel Press).  He has also published two chapbooks. A US History teacher, as well as a lifelong Kansas City Royals fan, he lives in Springfield, MO with his wife and two children.

Mark Mosley is a public school 7th grade math teacher. He draws baseball cards when he is not driving his son to baseball or his daughter to gymnastics. His cards can be seen on Twitter @mosley_mark, on Instagram @idrawbaseballcards, and can be purchased at https://idrawbaseballcards.bigcartel.com/

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