Detroit Tigers baseball fan(atic) Ed Markowski has a lot more to cheer about than usual this year. If you’re like Ed, you’re anticipating the start of the Major League Baseball World Series this weekend. This is, naturally, the perfect time to point you again to f/k/a‘s Baseball Haiku Page. Ed has many poems on that page and he’s been inspired lately to write a few more. Here is a handful of old and new ones:
first red leaves
i swing late
on a change-up
season’s end
a popcorn bag’s pop
echoes
through a stadium corridor
two crows
settle on the foul pole…
100th loss
“red hots!”
for an instant i’m ten
and
father’s still alive
bases loaded
no one out…..
the pitcher
blows a bubble
. . . . . . . . . . . . by Ed Markowski 
“bases loaded” – Haiku Sun (Issue X, Jan. 2004)
Meanwhile, Roberta Beary dropped a note recently to remind me that women haijin also write baseball/ softball haiku and senryu. That’s something haikuEsq learned long ago. For example:
nearly dark–
snow deepens
on the baseball field
warm beer–
heat lightning flickers
beyond the outfield
. . . . . . by billie wilson
“nearly dark” – Acorn 15 (2005)
“warm beer” – frogpond (2004)
Happily, Roberta sent along a couple samples of her own:
tryouts —
the softball sails over
my daughter’s glove
spring thaw
a pinecone rolls
to first base
. . . . and we’re adding a Halloween bonus: 
Halloween twilight
army helicopters
fill the sky
. . . . . . . . by Roberta Beary – “tryouts” – shiki kukai, November 2004
“spring thaw” – shiki kukai, March 2005
“Halloween twilight” – shiki kukai, Oct. 2001
Since we’ve just talked about championships, Roberta, and Halloween, I should take the time to let you know that Ms. Beary has again shown her championship style — winning first place in the 2006 Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi Memorial Contest for yuki teikei haiku. Here’s the most excellent First Place haiku:
Halloween twilight
again this year my son waits
alone by the door
p.s. Due to website technicalities, I can no longer add to our Baseball Haiku Page, but hope to start a second one soon. All of our Honored Guest Poets are hereby requested to send more baseball haiku for inclusion. thanks.