<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420272" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sleeper</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you’re ever in Chicago, , and you have some extra time, .<br>There’s a baseball legend buried there, a sleeper of a kind.<br>He won’t help you win at fantasy. It was long ago he played<br>For forty years or more he has been waiting in his grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">John Donaldson was a Monarch on the Kansas City team, <br>perhaps the greatest pitcher ever in the Negro League.<br>His fastball was like Feller’s when Bob was in his prime<br>He had a Curve like Mathewson’s, a Giant of his time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is buried among teammates who never made the Show<br>A three hundred game winner that true fans ought to know.<br>In little towns and hamlets he won renown and fame<br>He never made the majors, they were then a white man’s game.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>His victories and strikeouts have been obscured by time.<br>He was born a bit too early to ever break the color line.<br>He was working toting mailbags on his final fatal day<br>When, like his famous slider, he would break down and fade away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420272" data-title="The Sleeper de John F. McCullagh" data-description="If you’re ever in Chicago, , and you have some extra time, . There’s a baseball legend buried there, a sleeper of a kind. He won’t help you win at fantasy. It was long ago he played For forty years or more he has been waiting in his grave. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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