Donald Hall on "Casey at the Bat:" A Ballad of the Republic
Educator, critic, and fourteenth United States poet laureate (2006-2007), Donald Hall (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) penned an Afterword to...
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The Love Song of E. "Phineas" Thayer
The Love Song of E. "Phineas" Thayer, was awarded Honorable Mention in the Print/Online Article category of the 89th Annual Writer's Digest Writing...
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"Casey's" First Draft: Song of a Captain Bold
In his final 1887 ballad for the San Francisco Examiner, Ernest Thayer abandoned his variations on the absurd complexities of the love tri...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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"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...
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"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...
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The Love Song of E. "Phineas" Thayer
The Love Song of E. "Phineas" Thayer was awarded Honorable Mention in the Print/Online Article category of the 89th Annual Writer's Digest Writ...
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¡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...
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"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 Ernest Thaye...
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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...
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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...
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