E..G. Green This was my baseball nom de plume: E for Eliza, Green my maiden name (I survived three husbands, but they aren't germane to this poem so they won't be mentioned here; you can look them up if you're interested) For a decade I was the official scorer for the Chicago White Stockings of the League Except for Mr. Spalding, who hired me, no one, not even the League president, knew that E.G. Green was a woman; it was amusing to be sitting with the players' wives during games, undercover, so to speak And it was even more amusing to hear them, and later, their husbands, kick about an official scoring decision; sometimes they even asked my opinion about the correctness of such decisions! Michael Ceraolo is a 61-year-old retired firefighter/paramedic and active poet who has had two full-length books (Euclid Creek, from Deep Cleveland Press; 500 Cleveland Haiku, from Writing Knights Press) and several shorter-le
