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No Joy in Endsville: "Cool" Casey at the Bat

No Joy in Endsville: "Cool" Casey at the Bat

Caseyatthe.blog has forever like, dug "'Cool' Casey at the Bat"-- artist Don Martin's unique contribution to the still-growing canon of literature...

Vive la France! Et Vive "Casey au bâton"

It's July 14, known as "Bastille Day" in the English-speaking world, but in France it's the day of the Fête nationale ("National Celebration"), le ...

Casey Stops by the Ball Park on a Snowy Evening

“One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.” -- Robert Frost (1874-1963) Whose field this was I used to know But t...

"There is a boom in baseball too"--The Ballad of Ambrose Bierce

Two weeks after taking over the San Francisco Examiner in 1887, William Randolph Hearst sought out Ambrose Bierce to join the Examiner staff as chi...

"Casey's" Companions and Counterfeits, Part II: The Classical Roots of Baseball Poetry

In previous posts "In Search of 'Casey's" Companions: A Tale of Two Clowns," and "In Search of the Counterfeit Casey," Caseyatthe.blog has explore...

The Love Song of E. "Phineas" Thayer

"I do not believe that an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his wo...

¡Viva el 5 de mayo! Y viva la tradición de la Liga Mexicana de Béisbol!

¡Celebramos el 5 de mayo, junto con la historia rica de la Liga Mexicana de Béisbol! Caseyatthe.blog ha declarado nuestra intención de ver la bal...

"Casey at the Bat" and its Long Post-Game Show

Caseyatthe.blog exists for the purpose of curating and promoting the best of "Casey" research, parody, and scholarship--the legacy of "Casey's" on...

Emily Dickinson in the Elysian Fields

Poet and translator A. M. Juster has referred to “Casey at the Bat,” as "perhaps the most enduring poem of American popular culture." (Its only riv...

Song of Our Game: The Ballad of Casey as imagined by Walt Whitman

“Bold, ambitious, brave, congrats!” -- John Thorn, Official Historian of Major League Baseball In the spring of 1888--as people from Maryland to M...

Spalding World Baseball Tour Villa Borghese

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 (...

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 ...

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...