
Wanted by the FBI: Mighty Casey on the Ten Most Wanted List
Wanted: "The Mighty Casey" -- Height 7 feet; weight 600 pounds; bronze complexion, appears about 30 years old, but is considered "immortal." Once b...
Read moreAmong the many signs of the growing popularity of baseball in the UK, Major League Baseball has announced the renewal of the "London Series" of ga...
Read moreThrough an online dialog this summer I was introduced (via MLB's official historian John Thorn) to "Kessler at the Bat" by the inimitable ...
Read morePlayer photo: Tim Wiles, formerly of the Baseball Hall of Fame, in costume as The Mighty Casey. The magical season of the year as experienced b...
Read moreOn his birthday #OTD May 12, 1925, Caseyatthe.blog salutes Yogi Berra, Baseball Hall of Fame catcher and manager, Yankee immortal, and Poet Laureat...
Read moreNow come the dreary days of October, when the hopes of the fans of 29 major league teams will ultimately be dismantled. Not today, though, approach...
Read moreThanks to Anika Orrock, artist, author, and illustrator of the featured image above ("The Mudville Nine"), used here with her permission. Of all t...
Read moreAugust 14 is the date to celebrate the birthday of Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863) and also the debut performance in 1888 of Thayer's "Casey at the B...
Read moreDemagogues fixed a predatory eye on the inherent flaws of the American Republic. Like buzzards they circled the wounded behemoth thrashing in a bo...
Read moreI think the popular focus on Casey and his strikeout, rather than on the victorious pitcher, illustrates the wisdom and poetic sensibility of c...
Read moreIf the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal, it would not surprise us. [1] ...
Read moreOn December 11 of last year, Caseyatthe.blog called out the misleading and "pernicious misappropriation" of an ancient Roman legend by right-wing p...
Read more“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 tha...
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