The Back Room: Classics

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Here is to Angell, old Rog,
The dean of the sportswriters’ lodge,
Who remembers the Giants
And knuckleball science
And the Dodgers before they left Dodge. 

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Miss Austen, the valiant Jane,
Abstained from gin and cocaine
And consorting with men,
But now and again
She was thrilled to take walks in the rain.

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The tortured poet John Berr…