Poet Marianne Moore, 81, threw out the first pitch at the opening of the 1968 baseball season at Yankee Stadium on April 10th, against the Los Angeles Angels ...

WORCESTER – Children and families gathered on the Berm of Polar Park to kick off the day for the National Baseball Poetry Festival. The youngsters, prepping for their own big performances, overlooked ...

One of the most famous poems in American literature, “Casey at the Bat,” is arguably the “most memorable piece of baseball writing ever produced,” according to Glenn Stout, editor of “The Best ...

The new poetry collection from Krystal Languell, Systems Thinking with Flowers, uses baseball as a backdrop to explore some very big ideas. Krystal’s fourth book, Systems Thinking With Flowers, is the ...

For all of the carping these days about the slow pace of baseball, there was a time when our grand, clockless sport fired millions of imaginations. Said firing was helped along by a 24-year-old ...

Well, 125 years ago this coming Monday. Today, however, Dave D’Alessandro of the Newark Star-Ledger has a remembrance of baseball’s most famous poem, as well as some background on those who have tried ...

Fans of a pretty niche literary genre gathered over the weekend in Worcester, Massachusetts. WBUR's Andrea Shea has more on the National Baseball Poetry Festival and its origins. ANDREA SHEA, BYLINE: ...

“Baseball, as professionalized as it has become, is, of all the sports I ever played, the one that can provide the most pure pleasure,” Smith said. “It’s played at the best time of the year. The ...

WORCESTER — The city will host a "first of its kind" National Baseball Poetry Festival uniting baseball and poetry with events April 28-30 at Polar Park and in the Canal District. It's also an ...