Line Drives

Brooke Horvath is a professor of English at Kent State University and the author of two collections of poetry - In a Neighborhood of Dying Light and Consolation at Ground Zero. He has served as a book review editor for Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature. Tim Wiles is the director of research at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. His baseball writings include a column, Letters in the Dirt, in the Cooperstown Freeman's Journal and poems in Elysian Fields Quarterly and Fan.

"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