While I don’t have the cultural connection to Haiku that true connoisseurs of the 17-syllable poems might, I got chills as I listened to several read on a special Selected Shorts program devoted to baseball writing, as aired on Public Radio International.
The readings come from Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written About the Game, as read by the actor Alec […]

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With a lineup more loaded than Jon Wayne’s colon the Yomiuri Giants dropped game 1 at home to Giant-killer Tyrone Woods and the Chunichi Dragons by a 5-2 count.
Chunichi skipper Hiromitsu Ochiai pulled a surprise prior to the game announcing that lefty Takashi Ogasawara would be the starter rather than ace Daisuke Yamai, a right-hander.
The move seemed to knock the […]

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The La New Bears of Kaohsiung and Uni-President Lions of Tainan face off in the 2007 CPBL championship in a rematch of last year’s Taiwan Series beginning this week. The Bears enter the series on a roll, having won the second half championship. Led by former Dodgers OF Chen Jin Fong offensively (.382! / 26 […]

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