Keeping Score

In KEEPING SCORE, Hamblin celebrates sport as both a participant and a spectator. The heat of competition, the camaraderie of the team, and the memories of games and athletes past, in both victory and defeat, are captured here. Keeping Score is, indeed, an offering of "God's plenty," poems ranging, in subject, from childhood baseball to pole vaulting. It is, without question, the most comprehensive collection of sports poems, by one author, on the market. And for anyone who cares about sport and poetry, Hamblin's words, like those of the early radio sportscasters he admired, are proclamations "from angelic messengers."--Don Johnson.