…even better than golf is baseball! There is a fine tradition of writing about baseball, and this little gem should be right there with the old glove that you take to the game: Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written About the Game edited by Cor van den Heuvel and Nanae Tamura. It’s as simple as a knuckleball; a collection haiku about baseball by American and Japanese poets. Here are two by Imai Sei:
the baseball stadium’s
ten-thousand empty seats
the first swallow
a ground-rule double
any ball that’s hit into
the green onion field
All star game is tonight, a perfect choice for such a day!