Song of Our Game: The Ballad of Casey as imagined by Walt Whitman
In the spring of 1888--as people from Maryland to Maine dug out of the Great Blizzard which had paralyzed the eastern seaboard--it was high time fo...
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In Search of the "Counterfeit" Casey
In Albert Spalding's compendium of American baseball from its origins to the early 20th century[1], baseball' s former star, future Hall-of-Famer (...
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In Search of "Casey's" Companions: "A Tale of Two Clowns"
The dedicated sleuthing of MLB's official historian, John Thorn, has brought to light a "companion piece" to "Casey at the Bat," dating to October ...
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Casey and the Golden West
The notion of Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat" as a literary emblem of America's Golden West occurred to me as I read MLB's official historian J...
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Is sports all about winning? Or all about losing?
Ernest Thayer's classmate George Santayana wrote in an 1894 essay ("Philosophy on the Bleachers") of the inherent drama (and potential tragedy) e...
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Why the Ballad of the Republic?
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888 #CaseyattheBat #BalladoftheRepublic "Casey's" subtitle, "A Ballad of the Republic...
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Casey @ the Bat
"Casey @ the Bat" (Subtitled "A poem for baseball in the modern era") is the latest addition to the "Casey" canon! This masterful take on the time-...
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Mueller at the Bar
A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 2019 #MuellerReport #MuellerTime #MuellersReport @POETS.org @PoetryFound @poetrymagazine #PoetryMonth #C...
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The Strange Romance of a Bold Detective
By far the best of Thayer's 1887 "pre-Casey" ballads was "The Strange Romance of a Bold But Unfortunate Detective," published in the Examiner on S...
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"Casey's" Unanswered Questions
On August 14 two years ago, on the occasion of Ernest Thayer's birthday in 1863, Smithsonian.com published Kat Eschner's article "'Casey at the Bat...
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Faith, Flavin and Fenway: Dick Flavin at the Plate
#CaseyattheBat @tgsports @PawSox @worcestermag @RedSox @baseballminutia @PulpEphemera @MiLB @MLB @sevenhillwyvern @Jeremy13News @telegramdotcom @W...
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Casey at the Bat 2019: A Modern Retelling
While documenting the on-going legend of "Casey at the Bat," Caseyatthe.blog attempts to give credit and wider circulation to contemporary re-tell...
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