A Walk in the City (ePub)

Thomas Porky McDonald is a poet and writer who often comments on both baseball and life. His first six poetry collections, each of which contained five smaller volumes, spanned the 1990s on into the early twenty-first century. Ground Pork: Poems 1989–1994, Downtown Revival: Poems 1994–1997, Closer to Rona: Poems 1997–1999, Still Chuckin': Poems 1999–2002, In the Cameo Shade: Poems 2002–2005, and Vespers at Sunset: Poems 2005–2007 all presented a writer whose work was often distinguished by the use of baseball and the ballpark venue. Other previously published poetry came in the form of two thematic volumes, Diamond Reflections and Baseball Pieces for Real Fans, which takes the most vibrant baseball-related poems of the chronological collections from the many other life-related pieces contained in each five-book set, and Dem Poems: The Brooklyn Collection, born of verses written from 1985–2005, two decades when the writer’s jobsite was based in the borough of churches. Twenty-one years on the road visiting ballparks comes vibrantly alive in his most involved work, Poet in the Grandstand: An Enlightened Tour of Ballparks and the Places Where They Live. His book on poetic process, Does the Toy Cannon Fire Still at Night? cited sixty-two poems from his first three collections, giving the actual story behind each piece. Beyond the poetry landscape, his most recent book, the skipper’s scrapbook, was inspired by his own Queens upbringing and told the tale of two men and the journey they took together through the final season of their home ballpark, Shea Stadium. McDonald has also released Series Endings: A Whimsical Look at the Final Plays of Baseball’s Fall Classic, 1903–2003, a distinctly different view of baseball’s World Series than most mainstream histories; At a Loss to Eternity: Baseball Teams of Note That Didn’t Win it All, a celebration of great, non-Series winning teams; Never These

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