
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...
Read moreCasey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888 #CaseyattheBat #BalladoftheRepublic "Casey's" subtitle, "A Ballad of the Republic...
Read more"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-...
Read moreA Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 2019 #MuellerReport #MuellerTime #MuellersReport @POETS.org @PoetryFound @poetrymagazine #PoetryMonth #C...
Read moreBy 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...
Read moreOn 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...
Read more14 de agosto 2019: Un nuevo capitulo en la leyenda de Casey (August 14: A New Chapter in the "Casey" Legend) August 14 is a special day in the cont...
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Read moreWhile 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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Read moreAfter a presentation to #SABR (the Society of American Baseball Researchers--Dayton, Ohio Chapter) this afternoon I was asked by fellow SABR membe...
Read moreNote from Caseyatthe.blog Keith Chaffee, Librarian at the Collection Development department of the Los Angeles Public Library, has post...
Read moreI love the way that "Casey at the Bat" has threaded itself into American consciousness, continuing proof of the ballad's relevance to an understand...
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