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Ducks On The Pond
"Ducks" is a love letter to baseball, but it's not just diamonds, dust & Dodgers. It's about youth, wonder & nostalgia-simpler times when Pluto was a planet & reality stars were not. Steal away to Kool Aid-stained summer days, wiffle ball, BBQ hot dogs and "American Top 40" with Casey Kasem. Award-winning writer R. Scott Murphy uses his "storyteller mashup" style to blend "Cultural Literacy" with "Schoolhouse Rock" and take snapshots of the grand game. He morphs generations of Bronx Bombers in "Revelry In The House of Ruth," the ultimate conversation starter for Yankee Nation. Liven up your longball lingo with "The Home Run Alphabet." Take a poetic excursion to every MLB stadium & every World Series played since 1965. Count down Murphy's favorite baseball nicknames with music references as assigned by ESPN's Chris Berman. Albert Pujols becomes "E Pluribus Pujols," and "The Monsters Are Raging On Huston Street." As Casey Kasem would say, "Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars."
162 pages, Hardcover
First published January 21, 2011
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July 15, 2018
Take me out to a ballgame and I don’t care if I never get back.
This book is the author’s, R, Scott Murphy’s reminiscence into America’s pastime we fondly know as baseball.
I found Mr. Murphy’s writing through his prose and poetry to be quite allegorical as it calls its readers to reflect on their younger days, and the wonderment of those times when life itself had been quite unpretentious. And all we can do these days is to simply remind ourselves of the sentimental times we’ve had enjoyed.
If you’re a child of the 1950’s like me, you’ve enjoyed drinking those 5 cent packages of Kool-Aid powder while listening the music Casey Kasen played each week on his “American Top 40.”
I loved his descriptive poetic guided tour of all of the Major League Baseball Stadiums, along with his Japanese 3 lines of Haiku themed poetry [5-7-5 syllables] about each of the World Series Games from 1965-2010 and let’ us not forget some of the players themselves got treated with the same type of poetry.
For having given all lovers of this great American pastime, something with which they can relive the fond memories of their youth, I’m giving Mr. Murphy 5 STARS.
This book is the author’s, R, Scott Murphy’s reminiscence into America’s pastime we fondly know as baseball.
I found Mr. Murphy’s writing through his prose and poetry to be quite allegorical as it calls its readers to reflect on their younger days, and the wonderment of those times when life itself had been quite unpretentious. And all we can do these days is to simply remind ourselves of the sentimental times we’ve had enjoyed.
If you’re a child of the 1950’s like me, you’ve enjoyed drinking those 5 cent packages of Kool-Aid powder while listening the music Casey Kasen played each week on his “American Top 40.”
I loved his descriptive poetic guided tour of all of the Major League Baseball Stadiums, along with his Japanese 3 lines of Haiku themed poetry [5-7-5 syllables] about each of the World Series Games from 1965-2010 and let’ us not forget some of the players themselves got treated with the same type of poetry.
For having given all lovers of this great American pastime, something with which they can relive the fond memories of their youth, I’m giving Mr. Murphy 5 STARS.
June 9, 2011
R. SCOTT MURPHY'S "DUCKS ON THE POND" (A REVIEW)
If you are looking for a great anthology ode to baseball, you must pick up this book. R. Scott Murphy has put together poetry and prose, laced with wonderful back stories that highlight the history of this Great American Sport perfectly.
There is no way you can escape the nostalgia this book so eloquently offers.
-Kitty Bullard / Great Minds Think Aloud Book Club
Read more: http://www.greatmindsthinkaloud.probo...
If you are looking for a great anthology ode to baseball, you must pick up this book. R. Scott Murphy has put together poetry and prose, laced with wonderful back stories that highlight the history of this Great American Sport perfectly.
There is no way you can escape the nostalgia this book so eloquently offers.
-Kitty Bullard / Great Minds Think Aloud Book Club
Read more: http://www.greatmindsthinkaloud.probo...
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