In a poem titled for this activity's "Sad Lexicon," Franklin Pierce Adams immortalized the "saddest of possible words / ‘Tinker to Evers to Chance.'
The speaker of a surrealist poem by Gregory Corso consoles a weeping performer of this activity by telling him that "Randall Jarrell thinks you're a poet!" In a sure reference to masturbation, Robert Frost's "Birches" describes "some boy too far from town to learn" this activity, "whose only play was what he found himself." In a poem by William Carlos Williams, a crowd watching this activity "is moved uniformly / by a spirit of uselessness / which delights them." In a poem titled for this activity's "Sad Lexicon," Franklin Pierce Adams immortalized the "saddest of possible words / ‘Tinker to Evers to Chance.'" The best-known poem about this activity observes that "somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere / children shout," but that there was "no joy in Mudville" when the title character "struck out." For 10 points, name this sport, the subject of Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat."
The speaker of a surrealist poem by Gregory Corso consoles a weeping performer of this activity by telling him that "Randall Jarrell thinks you're a poet!"
baseball [prompt on the ball game; prompt on sports] &lt;Non-Epic Poetry&gt;