![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8dL5LjrU8G_UcAMqE9KHNi26wxYTJsBzIVQfzBsSrAF9b6TYYzSs1VZP1NxjLbeiOyNNC9AlsiomW7-EQPlVLB0Qf8BqKw9jvCH-Wwm26_lR3gzgw1_O7lDJnO30XlO74mHddCvfL933v/s200/ogden+nash+football+colts.jpg)
Nash penned a poem about Bubba Smith, the 6' 7", 280 lb defensive end who passed away last week, ensuring that Smith's legacy will live on:
Bubba Smith
When hearing tales of Bubba Smith
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEfGMQQmtlwS-hQDqxGMSNC4OtB0y_Ulgmgp-FlSWagBz8zA7RNLh-HNAFG-IvHZ7yxANSmMqv5fjSiwYaI_L_PSg5ijIjIrcSJmwRhhWAa-haaFA60tA0PwOBSRV7czXrPGgd6p78zl6S/s400/Ogden+Nash+colts+smith.jpg)
You wonder if he's man or myth.
He's like a hoodoo, like a hex,
He's like Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Few manage to topple in a tussle
Three hundred pounds of hustle and muscle.
He won't complain if double-teamed;
It isn't Bubba who gets creamed.
What gained this pair of underminers?
Only four Forty-niner shiners.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAAFsAfnXRl58bD0qz-hh7kvQ90oTW1zUN_JX7LHEL5hZOR8oWbG1kUvMJTymMVh48vxqUpIEiOU747S59vdBPBdSOhWWZ-8EHHUkykHr5ox8Knzzoi62KKRMHkhKISoY0d_SDnB3jHddZ/s320/12-13-68+life+colts.jpg)
Nash wrote several poems about baseball in his career. As the story goes, when the St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore in 1953, the versifier composed this poem for a testimonial dinner:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVn9oOEzcDE3tmMBwLF9LCNucq9EPYsnSR8Xxnzm2ve3pax1ZOjlPm7xI7fUJj2FiK0HWfT1taoYcV2AGa7iHizm24Ld5xfEqfXuifjk8pUtM9-yiUiB7OPMybFBEfgrr1d1YkYNg-g1Fg/s400/nash+letter+to+gov.png)
You Can't Kill an Oriole
Wee Willie Keeler
Runs through the town,
All along Charles Street,
In his nightgown.
Belling like a hound dog,
Gathering the pack:
Hey, Wilbert Robinson,
The Orioles are back!
Hey, Hughie Jennings!
Hey, John McGraw!
I got fire in my eye
And tobacco in my jaw!
Hughie, hold my halo.
I'm sick of being a saint:
Got to teach youngsters
To hit 'em where they ain't.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdVArsuS7q8Y27jpCKtFVon9KoGJJlemW45KswjiS_Ed2znTizGj2wtJIR_A39VixgE1tJm7GQ8YygiBZHV5rOKed5RF7HK6g6Fvknt7itMl3em2bes8xffyp_taRTZ9fGS4hmc5cB1nLS/s200/nash+letter+to+gov2.png)
Copyright © by Linell Nash Smith and Isabel Nash Eberstadt.
No comments:
Post a Comment