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Helen Sewell (June 27, 1896 – February 24, 1957) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books.She won a Caldecott Medal Honor as illustrator of The Thanksgiving Story [1] by Alice Dalgliesh and she illustrated several novels that were runners-up for the Newbery Medal.
Traditional-style baseball scorecard. Baseball scorekeeping is the practice of recording the details of a baseball game as it unfolds. Professional baseball leagues hire official scorers to keep an official record of each game (from which a box score can be generated), but many fans keep score as well for their own enjoyment. [1]
In 2000, Michael J. Farrand adapted the rhyming scheme, tone, and theme of the poem—while reversing the outcome—to create his poem "The Man Who Gave All the Dreamers in Baseball Land Bigger Dreams to Dream" about Kirk Gibson's home run off Dennis Eckersley in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. The poem appears at the Baseball Almanac.
Harry Burleigh set the poem "Lovely, dark, and lonely one" from the 1932 collection The Dream Keeper and Other Poems [99] to music in 1935, [100] his last art song. Italian composer Mira Sulpizi set Hughes's text to music in her 1968 song "Lyrics". [101] Hughes's life has been portrayed in film and stage productions since the late 20th century.
In a letter to Power on December 31, 1931, Hughes thanked her "for the splendid little introduction" [8] she wrote for his book of poems, The Dream Keeper. In 1932, Ella McGregor of the American Library Association 's Committee on Library Work with Children, asked Power for the name of someone who would might be interested in writing an article ...
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After his baseball career ended, Quisenberry became a poet, publishing three poems in 1995 and a book of poetry titled On Days Like This in 1998. [ citation needed ] He was also one of baseball's most quotable characters, with bon mots like "I found a delivery in my flaw" and "I've seen the future and it's much like the present, only longer."
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