Kim Barney Baseball Poems

Young Bert and Kent were baseball nuts
and played it all the time.
They were, of course, quite good at it,
since each was in his prime.
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Hey, I don't pretend that this is a poem.

It is not, but I am a baseball nut, intrigued by strange baseball facts, and I thought I would share these. I have left out the names of the players, replaced by asterisks. Each asterisk represents one letter.
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Well, those players, they scratch and they spit,
and, when angry, at times throw a fit,
but when all's said and done,
this darn game's so much fun!
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