Great Regulars: This poem for Memorial Day week comes to

us from Bruce Guernsey of Bethel. He says that in the spring of 1987, his elderly father, a veteran and baseball fan, wandered off from a VA hospital and was never found. At the start of baseball season a few years later, Guernsey wrote "Extra Innings" to resolve his father's disappearance.

from Wesley McNair: The Portland Press Herald: Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

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