Elizabeth Barrett “Bullet Bess” Browning
was the battery mate of Robert “Yogi” Browning.
She was acclaimed for her Sonnets from the
Stengelese, the most famous of which begins:
How do I pitch thee? Let me count the ways:
I pitch thee to the letters, high and tight;
Or low and far away, where bat can’t bite;
Or in the dirt, which yet thy timber stays
Slippery Sue” Sappho threw sweet, passionate
heat for the Attica Athletics and the Lesbos
Lavender Sox. Although only a fragment of her
stats has survived to the present day, she is
remembered as one of the great lyric pitchers
of all time, with a fastball that reportedly
registered 98 mph on the sapphic meter.
Marianne “Big Hat” Moore
inhabited imaginary ballparks
with real shortstops in them.
After a great career with the New York
Modernists, she was invited
to throw out the first ball
on opening day in Eternity.
Emily “Wild Nights” Dickinson
spent her entire career in the dugout
for the Amherst Visionaries.
Finally, in the last moments of her life,
she was inserted into a game,
and heard a pop fly drop to the left
of her as she died.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent “Babe” Millay
played for the Greenwich Village Bohos,
burning her bat at both ends.
She was awarded a Cy Pulitzer Prize
in 1923 for her fourth collection,
The Earl-Weaver and Other Poems.
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