"Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems deserves a Hall of Fame nomination for the sheer number and variety of poems it anthologizes for the first time. The strongest praise, however, goes to the quality of the collection. These are fine poems by writers at the top of their game, and the editors' introduction is both wise and heartfelt. A grand slam!"-Don Johnson, editor of Hummers, Knucklers, and Slow Curves: Contemporary Baseball Poems