Red Sox Rhymes by Dick Flavin

Author:Dick Flavin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-06-08T00:00:00+00:00

Dom DiMaggio, the Little Professor. Put him in the Hall! (Courtesy of National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, NY.)

1946 World Series ticket. (Memorabilia from the Collection of Richard Johnson.)

FAREWELL, JOHNNY

c. 2012

Here’s to you, Johnny Pesky,

You’re baseball in this town.

You played. You coached. You managed.

You never let us down.

Two hundred hits a season

When you played, how’s that?

You hold the all-time record

For swings with a fungo bat.

They named a foul pole after you.

The reason, it is clear,

Is you could hit the ball that far—

Once or twice a year.

You saw them all, from Ted and Dom

To Yaz, Big Papi, too.

Seventy years of players

All learned a thing from you.

You’re Mr. Red Sox. You’re the man!

You’re in our Hall of Fame

You understood this basic truth,

That baseball’s just a game.

The game of life counted with you.

To know you was a pleasure.

Farewell, we love you, Johnny.

You’re a Red Sox treasure.

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