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Baseball Fan's Lament by Jean H. Berkompas

What to do when the team is in the cellar. The owner wants to know, the General Manager wants to understand, the manager NEEDS to find out fast, and every fan wonders — this wonderment can be best described as the Baseball Fan's Lament.

"Things are really looking black - Home team's getting off the track. Everything is out of whack." - Jean H. Berkompas

Published: Baseball Almanac (1999)

Daily paper's on the rack -
Sporting News is in the back.
Things are really looking black -
Home team's getting off the track.
Everything is out of whack -
Paying players all that jack.
How to get those bats to crack?
Time to try another tack -
Give the manager the sack?
Get another old-time hack -
To be leader of the pack.
Can he teach them to attack?
I don't have the answer, Mac!

Baseball Fan's Lament Author: Jean H. Berkompas ©

Did you know that the American League record for fewest games won during a season was set by the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics who finished the year 36-117?

Did you know that the National (and Major) League record for fewest games won during a season was set by the 1899 Cleveland Spiders who finished the year 20-134?

The author of this wonderful poem, Jean H. Berkompas, is a lifelong New York Mets fan & submitted this poem to Baseball Almanac using our Feedback section.

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