I am an old school blogger and as such I still list many blogs on multiple blogrolls at my site. There are many different types of blogs, sports blogs, music blogs, poetry blogs just to name a few. tonight as I was looking over some of the recent posts on my blog roll I noticed one that said 30 poems. So I assumed it was a poetry blog this being just a few hours from Poetry Friday. Boy was I wrong it was a blog called Fan Graphs which is a very insightful baseball blog that I understand only about a third of.
Well I clicked and there were 30 poems all right, but they were poems about baseball caps and not just any baseball caps but 30 poems dedicated to a new line of caps called overlap caps by the company New Era.
Davy Andrews wrote a poem for each of the 30 MLB teams caps. They are called overlap caps because each cap overlaps two of the baseball teams names or designs. Since I am a Chicago baseball fan I am including a picture of both Chicago teams caps and the first few lines of the poem to demonstrate the effect.
3 comments:
Welcome back! You have so many interests and these overlap caps and poem grabbed my curiosity. Thanks for sharing these!
Oh, interesting. These remind me a bit of wordplay "___ is a Word" poems we did recently where the actual shape/physicality of the word is also incorporated into the poem sometimes. Not a baseball fan, but even I like these baseball cap poems. :>)
Interesting post, Dave. As a baseball fan, I'll have to try this sometime.
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