It’s been 136 years since “Casey at the Bat,” one of the most famous poems in American literature, was first published. And in all of that time, the concluding line of Ernest Lawrence ...

In August 1888, The New York Sun published a poem, attributed to “Anonymous,” called “Casey at the Bat.” And the story of how it ended up in the Sun is a curious one. The light verses were actually by ...

For more than 15 years he has donned a Mudville uniform and recited Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat," first published ... he has recited the poem an estimated 2,000 times in 22 states ...

Everybody knows the baseball poem “Casey at the Bat” written by Ernest Thayer in 1888, but have you heard of the sequel “Casey’s Comeback”? If not, then enjoy the following poem authored ...

Ernest Thayer’s epic 1883 baseball poem “Casey at the Bat” was an American sensation. The comic ballad about the hometown hero who struck out in a game’s final at-bat meaning there would ...

Frank Deford puts aside his gripes this week to pay tribute to the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer ... with Casey at the bat. For there seemed but little chance of Casey's getting to the bat.

If someone asked you to think of a poem about baseball, chances are that the first one—maybe the only one—to spring to mind would be "Casey At The Bat." The send-up about a hulking slugger for the ...

Yup. "Casey at the Bat," performed by DeWolf Hopper in 1909. No poem set in a game has achieved the notoriety of Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s doggerel, with which he tells the story of how the ...

But of course, that is the birthplace of the famous ‘Casey At The Bat’ poem,” he said. “I had this idea for a poem about Jim Mias, celebrating his days of running unofficial Summer Ball on ...