"Line-Up for Yesterday: An ABC of Baseball Immortals" is a poem written by Ogden Nash for the January 1949 issue of SPORT Magazine. In the poem, Nash dedicates...

League Baseball All-Century Team. Speaker is mentioned in the poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash. In 2008, former baseball players' union chief Marvin...

Texas. Mack is mentioned in the 1949 poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash: Line-Up for Yesterday Q is for Don Quixote Cornelius Mack; Neither Yankees...

shortstop. Wagner is mentioned in the poem Line-Up for Yesterday by Ogden Nash. Line-Up for Yesterday W is for Wagner, The bowlegged beauty; Short was closed...

Retrieved November 5, 2024. Biography portal Baseball portal Line-Up for Yesterday M is for Matty, Who carried a charm In the form of an extra brain in...

had a .343 batting average, compared to .338 for Ruth, during this period. "Line-Up for Yesterday" G is for Gehrig, The Pride of the Stadium; His record...

don't." Cobb was mentioned in the poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash: Line-Up for Yesterday C is for Cobb, Who grew spikes and not corn, And made...

is mentioned in the poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash, first published in Sport magazine in January 1949: O is for Ott Of the restless right...

career record for strikeouts was broken by Johnson in 1921. Young's 76 career shutouts are fourth all-time. "Line-Up for Yesterday" Y is for Young The magnificent...

was one of the players mentioned in the poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash: Line-Up for Yesterday U would be 'Ubbell If Carl were a Cockney; We...

is the first player mentioned in the poem Line-Up for Yesterday by Ogden Nash: Line-Up for Yesterday A is for Alex The great Alexander; More Goose eggs...

the set. Lajoie is mentioned in the poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash: Line-Up for Yesterday L is for Lajoie Whom Clevelanders love, Napoleon himself...

McLain. Dean was mentioned in the 1949 poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash: Line-Up for Yesterday D is for Dean, The grammatical Diz, When they asked...

Johnson. Johnson is mentioned in the poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash: Line-Up for Yesterday J is for Johnson The Big Train in his prime Was so...

"Son, when you pitch a strike, Mr. Hornsby will let you know." Line-Up for Yesterday H is for Hornsby; When pitching to Rog, The pitcher would pitch, Then...

Antonio, Texas. Foxx is mentioned in the poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash: "Line-Up for Yesterday" X is the first Of two x's in Foxx Who was right...

by Robert Ruark and as well in the poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash. Line-Up for Yesterday K is for Keeler, As fresh as green paint, The fastest...

Museum for the inaugural class of 2014. Frisch is mentioned in the poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash: "Line-Up for Yesterday" F is for Fordham...

Bill Terry is mentioned in the 1949 poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash: Line-Up for Yesterday T is for Terry The Giant from Memphis Whose .400 average...

No. 336 in Gettysburg. Line-Up for Yesterday P is for Plank, The arm of the A's; When he tangled with Matty Games lasted for days. — Ogden Nash, Sport...

see a tree at all." Nash, a baseball fan, wrote a poem titled "Line-Up for Yesterday", an alphabetical poem listing baseball immortals. Published in...

Time. Vance is mentioned in the 1949 poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash: Line-Up for Yesterday V is for Vance, The Dodgers' own Dazzy; None of his...

1949 poem "Line-Up For Yesterday: An ABC of Baseball Immortals," referred to the trio of players in a stanza for the letter "E": E is for Evers His jaw...

ballplayer. Evers is mentioned in the 1949 poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash: Line-Up for Yesterday E is for Evers, His jaw in advance; Never afraid to...

"Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash, where he is the only player mentioned still not in the Hall of Fame as of 2021: Line-Up for Yesterday N is for Newsom...

20th century. "Yesterday" is a melancholic ballad about the break-up of a relationship. The singer nostalgically laments for yesterday when he and his...

for the first time, selected a player who clearly had no damn business being there". Bresnahan was mentioned in the 1949 poem "Line-Up for Yesterday"...

league career of eight seasons, undistinguished but for being the first major league pitcher to give up a home run to Babe Ruth. Carrigan was sufficiently...

and participatory sports. Ogden Nash wrote his baseball poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" for the magazine in 1949. Representative of Sport magazine's stature...

features charts, graphs and other detailed statistical information that backs up the data from the previous sections. Included in this section is a listing...