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Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written about the Game   Nanae Tamura, Cor van den Heuvel
A collection of 200 haiku about baseball, some average, some pretty good, all entertaining. The editors admit that the form doesn’t really work in English, so many of the English poems don’t have the structure, and the translations of the Japanese poems can’t retain the syllable structure, but, in my opinion, haiku does seem to go well with the subject of baseball. Glad I read it, especially in April.