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Sign: Berkeley - Berkeley Poetry Walk - "Baseball and Classicism" a song by Tom Clark

Address:
2081 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA
Category:
Walking path
City:
Berkeley, CA For all manhole covers in Berkeley, CA
Country:
USA For all manhole covers in USA
Shape:
Square
Material:
Metal
Placement:
Ground
Tags:
Literature and poetry 
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BASEBALL AND CLASSICISM

Every day I peruse the box scores for hours
Sometimes I wonder why I do it
Since I am not going to take a test on it
And no one is going to give me money

The pleasure’s something like that of codes
Of deciphering an ancient alphabet say
So as brightly to picturize Eurydice
In the Elysian Fields on her perfect day

The day she went 5 for 5 against Vic Raschi

-Tom Clark
Photography:
2023
Ariel Rubinstein
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Comments:
Berkeley’s poetry Walk was laid in October 2003 along Edison Street between Shattuck and Milvia Streets. The route includes 128 metal plates with excerpts from songs, each of which is related in one way or another to the city of Berkeley.

In the current plaque , Tom Clark describes a scene from his childhood, how every Sunday he would take out the sports section from the newspaper that arrived at his home, and check the results tables.
Vic Raschi - a well-known baseball player

Tom Clark was a poet and biographer (1941-2018), lived in Berkeley where he was killed in a car accident.

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