Doing the Seeing

He could pitch but Fates decreed

him cursed by inconsistency.

24 is old scouts say,

for one more year in single A.

They were right; this was the year

he ended his baseball career

(for a '73 team created more

with genuflection than genius).

BUT in Winston on a white breathed night

he danced in rhythm with the Great Flashlight.

Right arm working beyond it's means,

mowed em like a threshing machine.

Fastball rose, curve dipped down,

as a moth hits Raid then smacks the ground.

Sometimes life's roadmap stinks it seems

(paradise quite misshapen);

But it let Steve Hardin live his dream,

and one night made it happen.

WILSON 3 6 0

WINSTON SALEM O O 1

Copyright ©2002 Daniel Grey Taylor