7-10-12: Lineup for Yesterday

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OgdenNash-0710.mp3

This conversation originally aired on December 19, 2011.

The poet Ogden Nash moved to Baltimore as a young man, bringing with him a love of baseball that lasted his whole life. He adopted Baltimore, and the Orioles, with a passion reflected in an ode to baseball greats he published in 1949.

That poem, "Lineup for Yesterday," has been published as a picture book, illustrated by C.F. Payne, with background on the players by Ogden Nash’s daughter Linell Nash Smith.