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Sunday, December 11, 2022

SPITBALL MASTER HAIKU

Homage to Gaylord Perry, 1938-2022


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by Earl J. Wilcox


Stiches seams       grip tight
Gaylord’s secret sauce   in flight
Cy Young       Saliva 

 
Earl Wilcox writes from South Carolina, up the road from where Gaylord Perry spent his  last years teaching his grandsons the fine arts of pitching.