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Line-Up for Yesterday

"Line-Up for Yesterday: An ABC of Baseball Immortals" is a poem written by Ogden Nash for the January 1949 issue of SPORT Magazine. In the poem, Nash dedicates each letter of the alphabet to a legendary Major League Baseball player. The poem pays tribute to 24 players altogether, plus one winking reference to himself (under "I") as a fan of the game, and concludes with a final stanza in homage to the players collectively.

Baseball players referred to in the poem

  • Grover Cleveland Alexander
  • Roger Bresnahan
  • Ty Cobb
  • Dizzy Dean
  • Johnny Evers
  • Frankie Frisch
  • Lou Gehrig
  • Rogers Hornsby
  • Carl Hubbell
  • Walter Johnson
  • Willie Keeler
  • Nap Lajoie
  • Christy Mathewson
  • Bobo Newsom
  • Mel Ott
  • Eddie Plank
  • Connie Mack
  • Babe Ruth
  • Tris Speaker
  • Bill Terry
  • Dazzy Vance
  • Honus Wagner
  • Jimmie Foxx
  • Cy Young

Statistics

  • Eighteen of the players were also in the Hall of Fame at the time, and all but one (Bobo Newsom) would eventually be inducted.
  • Eight players—Cobb, Gehrig, Hornsby, Johnson, Mathewson, Ruth, Wagner, and Young—would be elected to the All Century Team in 1999.
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