TV Producer Steps up to Bat with Baseball Poetry Book
Henry Schipper, a Venice based TV documentary producer and former journalist for the Hollywood trades–both Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, decided at age 72 to do something he had ever considered before. Write a bunch of poems about his beloved sport of baseball, and how the sport is a metaphor for both our lives, and his life. Author Henry Schipper wrote a book of baseball poems called “The Ball Dreams of the Sky.” Photo by Jefferson Graham The book, “The Ball Dreams of the Sky,” was recently released, and to Schipper’s pleasant surprise, it ended up in the Amazon Top 20–that is, in Amazon’s category ranking of both baseball books and poetry. Many top baseball writers have praised the book. Tim Kurkjian of ESPN called it “A walk-off hit for all fans,” and Ira Berkow, the former New York Times sports columnist, says the great poet Robert Frost “would have delighted, as did I, in Henry Schipper’s distinguished collection of baseball poems.” Schipper, who has produced documentaries on everything from Marilyn Monroe, the Golden Gate Bridge and 9/11, as well as countless one-hour documentaries on great black figures like Sammy Davis, Jr. and Dick Gregory for the TV One network…
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