BASEBALL IN GERMANY

Eine Geschichte und Kleine Nachtmusik

[A sad serenade of schemes not laid]

By Izzy Ess of Grand Largess

Inclement weather caused the cancelation

Of the baseball game that was to name

The winner of the winter leagues’ gold trophy

Cast in brilliant 18 carat gold,

Depicting Sam Clemente’s golden swing

That won the final game in yesteryear’s

Long competition in the Hinterland

Of Heidelberg.  The army personnel

That staffed the teams were from the USA

And Germany, just like the Second War

Of Europe, just three years before.  Suffice

To say, the skirmishes at second base

Were bloody and injurious.  The wounded

Were rushed off to Heidelberg’s fine hospital,

Der Herzlichen Gebau Spital.

The winner, Germany, relied exclusively

On former SS soldiers who

Were experts at assassination.

USA had several MB League

Great All-Stars, putting in their US Army

Time at Sindelfingen.  Every single

All-Star was dismembered and denied

Resumption of their Major League careers.

The casualties of German origin,

Were feted in the villages as heroes

And immortalized by sacrificial

Rites involving fires and pyres and quagmires.

Though, the League was seriously thinking,

Series, but the War Tribunal at Nuremberg

Court Castle, Schloss and Restaurant,

Put both thumbs down, like ancient Romans and

Original bold Fascists of the Fatherlands

And Motherlands, de facto, re-

Combined, like DNA.  In Galloway,

Narcissus cried and turned away his Lei,

His pay and apoplectic fertile lay.

THE END

© izzy sommers, md

Welland, Canada

June 19^th of MMXIII