Baseball is Dead Question Mark
Baseball is Dead Question Mark
By Meghan Healy
But why don’t they love baseball?
Like I did, like my Pai did,
Like a good American did.
Does?
But the strike cut into the flow
At a critical time in my young life
My albums and boxes of cards
And shelf of books and head full of stats
Felt silly when people laughed at
Men with guts complaining about not getting paid enough
To play baseball for a career
And the steroids were the straw
They broke the baseball part of my heart
Especially with Clemens staring at me
From the wall above my bed
So despite my love for the grace and wonder
Of this sport, the only team one I played as a little one
Too, well, softball anyway,
My two 21st century progeny
Wear matching Messi jerseys and talk about
The Premier League and nutmegs and rainbows
And don’t have a clue about curveballs and triples and the pitch count and sliding into base and the
waiting, anticipating, and the crack of bat on ball and the whoomph of ball in mitt
But there’s always next season
Meghan Healy lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the former home of the Dukes and current home of the Isotopes.
Jason David Córdova lives in Puerto Rico as an illustrator and painter. Some of his art can be seen on Instagram at @jasoni72. You can visit his shop on Red Bubble.
The Twin Bill is a nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. You can support The Twin Bill by donating here.