Donald Hall

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• Born: September 20, 1928 in New Haven, CT USA

Poet Donald Hall is the current Poet Laureate of the United States. His work has often focused on baseball. Hall began writing as a high school student at Phillips Exeter. He graduated from Harvard University in 1951, the same year as actor Fred Gwynn and writer Ursula K. Le Guin. He was first published in 1955 and he continues to write both poetry and prose today.

Among Hall's baseball works:

• Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball (1976)
• Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball) (1985)
• When Willard Met Babe Ruth (1996)