It was in 1942 that baseball seemed to settle into a four-year dream of unrecognizable rosters and foreign boxscores. Through 1943, fans watched, as rapt as before, but puzzled to find in the familiar so much that was now unfamiliar. And when the lowly St. Louis Browns made the 1944 World Series, aficionados openly questioned what they saw. Suspicion only grew in 1945 when a few dimly recalled names slipped back onto scorecards. But it was 1946, when 382 bat-toting ex-soldiers took the field, that reveille brought an end to the strangeness. The author provides a day-by-day account of swiftly changing roster moves that reinvigorated the game and brought fans back to the ballpark. Documenting the positions played by each man for every day, providing explanations of player absences, and annotating the rosters for each major league team, the work preserves in fine detail the arrival of baseball's Golden Age

Major League Baseball Transactions, 1946

Sports & Outdoors

Levy, Robert J.

Baseball

McFarland Publishing

Whistle Maker

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Anhinga Pr

Chefs at Twilight

The Bacchae Press

In the Century of Small Gestures

Defined Providence Press

Employing a clear, unflinching eye and a wry, affirmative humor, Robert J. Levy's "All These Restless Ghosts" unfolds in a series of discursive meditations and vignettes - written in a mix of both free and formal verse - that seek to unearth the large in the small. With a meticulous intimacy and resonant music Levy mines the quotidian events of daily life, finding in the smallest of moments the most luminous of epiphanies. In lines tinged with gentle humor, he crafts poems that are at once refreshingly conversational and profoundly meditative. He engages our affectionate attention, leading us to wonder, astonishment and awe. In this volume Levy tackles the most monumental of concerns with a humane deftness, revealing an incomparable soul and a large, large heart.

All These Restless Ghosts

FutureCycle Press

The poems in Robert J. Levy’s Beauty & Forfeiture ruminate, with pathos and humor, on life’s vagaries, ranging from the quotidian to the sublime. In lines at once crafted and colloquial, Levy reveals his adherence to the idea that “there is another world, and it is in this one,” as, in poem after poem, he teases out the unexpected from the dross of the material world. He has an acute eye for the larger themes inherent in life’s minutiae. In “Garlic,” for example, he eulogizes a kitchen staple, discovering in it a metaphor for the wondrous stink of merely being human. In “Wrong,” he celebrates human fallibility, asking, “Shouldn’t we, tumultuous/ with loss, lose ourselves in this crazed hubbub/ that calls itself a world?” Time and again, the poet realizes an uncompromising vision that acknowledges our mortality while finding ultimate meaning, and beauty, in our poignant impermanence in the world.

Beauty & Forfeiture

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