O Holy Cow!: The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto - Softcover

Rizzuto, Phil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061567132 ISBN 13: 9780061567131

Publisher: Ecco, 2008

Synopsis

Hall of Fame shortstop and Yankees broadcaster extraordinaire, the incomparable Phil Rizutto (1917-2007) waxed poetic on America's favorite pastime from the glorious days of Mantle and Maris well into the reign of Jeter and Rivera. For more than a quarter century the Bard of the Booth captured great moments in baseball—and effortlessly interwove them with essential and often hilarious insights into the human condition.

In loving commemoration and celebration of the life and career of an exceptional Man of Baseball, this new edition of O Holy Cow! includes a new foreword by baseball legend Bobby Murcer, a new poem written by editors Tom Peyer and Hart Seely, and more than sixty additional never-before-published masterworks of short, impromptu verse that capture the unmistakable voice of the unforgettable Rizzuto.

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Review

It's difficult for me to write about O Holy Cow! because the sheer brilliance of this volume of poetry completely disarmed me. The editors have discovered a gold mine of "found poetry" in the wordsmithing of New York Yankees baseball announcer Phil Rizzuto. Long considered one of the finest talkers in the game, Tom Peyer and Hart Seely have found that with proper arrangement on the page, Rizzuo's words become modern verse to rival our finest contemporary bards. I'll just let this short selection whet your appetite for the poetic feast that awaits:
F.Y.I. A little high. Two balls. No strikes.
Riverview Medical Center Is down the Jersey shore.
Three balls No strikes.

Review

1961 And 1991
Alienation
Apodosis
Asylum
Boxes
The Bridge
Bubbles
Buns
California
Challenge To Youth
Champion
Chaos
Chess
Colorado
Concord
Confrontation
Dickie Poem Number One
Dickie Poem Number Two
Dimaggio's Bat
Doom Balloon
Dream Day
F.y.i.
Field Of Butterflies
Forever Young
From Slumber I Heard The Men At Work
Giliad
Glasses
Go Ahead, Seaver
Greenwich Time
Grew
Haiku
Hall And Nokes
Hero On The Goat
I Never Cried
I Really Should Be Going Home
I Walk With Fear
Imagine
The Indelible Smell
Instructions For The World
Joe R.
Kubek And Trautwig And Phillips Or Powers
Lake Effect
Legs
A Life For Mickey
A Life For Mickey
The Locked Door
Luck Of The Irish
The Man In The Moon
Mattingly's Surprise
Mere Anarchy Is Loosed Upon The World
My Nose
My Only Friend, The End
My Secret
Mythkill
Never Say Never
O What A Huddle Out There
Observation
Oklahoma
On Journalism
On The Couch With Myself
Paul Revere
The Penguin
Poem For Jesse
Poem For The Last Picture Show
Poem No. 61
Polonia's Hair
Possessions
Prayer For The Captain
The Prince
Q
The Question Of White's Wherabouts
Remember When
Reversal Of Opinion
Rocket Love
Squirrels
Surprise Attack
Symmetry
T-bone
Telly, Cary, And Frank
These Heaters
They Own The Wind
This Planet Warm And Human
Thought For Seaver
Time And Money
To Be Alone
To Blow A Story
To Finish A Story
To Speak With Espy, To Smile With Tears
Unwashed
Very Frustrated
Vincent
Wait A Minute
The Way Mattingly Wants Them To Do
White's Secret
Zamboanga
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061567132
• ISBN 13: 9780061567131
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208