Keeping Score.Keeping Score Robert Robert, Henry Martyn 1837-1923. American army engineer and parliamentary authority. He designed the defenses for Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and later wrote Robert's Rules of Order (1876). Noun 1. Hamblin Time Being Books 10411 Clayton Road, Suites 201-203, Saint Louis Saint Louis (l  `ĭs), city (1990 pop. 396,685), independent and in no county, E Mo., on the Mississippi River below the mouth of the Missouri; inc. as a city 1822. St. , MO 63131
9781568091143, $15.95 www.timebeing.com Sports literature teacher and former athlete and coach Robert Hamblin presents Keeping Score: Sports Poems for Every Season, a hearty heart·y adj. heart·i·er, heart·i·est 1. Expressed warmly, exuberantly, and unrestrainedly: a hearty welcome. 2. celebration of sports from a diversity of perspectives--the player on the field or floor, the coach on the bench, or the fan in the stands. Brimming brim n. 1. The rim or uppermost edge of a hollow container or natural basin. 2. A projecting rim or edge: the brim of a hat. 3. A border or an edge. See Synonyms at border. with exuberance and enthusiasm, Keeping Score often applies a wry tongue-in-cheek humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was to its sports passion. A free-verse poetry book that sports lovers everywhere can enjoy. "Basketball at 65": "Are you still / playing basketball?" / my sister asked, / during a recent visit. // "Yes," I told her, / "when my knees will allow." // "You don't play full court, do you?" // "No. Just half-court." // Then, on second thought: // "Actually we don't play / half-court either; / we usually just stand / in one place / and hope the ball / will come to us." |
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