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Julie Vognarglad you like my poem--it's my poem, and it only appeared in Baseball Hobby News.
Nelson Algren wrote a great poem about the Blacksox, " Swede is a Hard Guy," (I think he gave it another name later) parts of which appear before the final two chapters of Eight Men Out, and a big section on Shoeless at the end of the text. It originally appeared in "The Southern Review," 1942.
Do not be remembering the most natural man ever to
weasr spiked shoes.
The canniest fielder and the longest hitter,
Who squatted on his heels
In a uniform muddied at the knees,
Till the bleacher shadows grew long behind him.
Who went along with Chick and Buck and Happy
Because they treated him friendly-like,
Hardly like Yankees at all.
With Williams because Lefty was from the South too.
And with Risberg because the Swede waS such a hard guy.
Who made an X for his name and couldn't argue with
Comisakey's sleepers.
But who could pick a line drive out of the air ten feet
outside the foul line
And..
I've been kicked out Algren