Ogden Nash and "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up." Nash, a baseball fan, wrote a poem titled "Line-Up for Yesterday," an alphabetical poem listing baseball immortals. Published in "Sport" magazine in January 1949, the poem pays tribute to the baseball greats and to his own fandom, in alphabetical order. Here is a sampling from his A to Z list: Nash particularly loved Baltimore sports teams. Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the Camille Saint-Saëns orchestral suite "The Carnival of the Animals", which are sometimes recited when the work is performed. The original
Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival called "The Carnival" "a stunning solo album that's light years beyond "The Score"". He also wrote "In his universalist embrace of music of all forms, Wyclef Jean makes a more powerful call for peace and unity than a thousand East Coast-West Coast "Stop the violence, y'all" intros put together.""The Carnival" was voted the sixteenth best album of the year in "The Village Voice"s annual Pazz & Jop critics poll for 1997. Christgau, the poll's creator, ranked it twentieth on his own list. In 2011, "Rolling Stone" ranked "The Carnival" the 69th best album of the 1990s. "The Carnival" debuted at