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"Casey's" Unanswered Questions

"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...

Queci al Bate

14 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...

Faith, Flavin and Fenway: Dick Flavin at the Plate

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Caset 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...

Two Peoples Divided by a Common Ballad: The #LondonSeries, the Rise of Baseball in the UK, and an Ancient Legend

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Casey at the Bat

After a presentation to #SABR (the Society of American Baseball Researchers--Dayton, Ohio Chapter) this afternoon I was asked by fellow SABR membe...

A Week to Remember: Casey at the Bat

Note from Caseyatthe.blog Keith Chaffee, Librarian at the Collection Development department of the Los Angeles Public Library, has post...

On Heroism, Hubris, and Humility

I love the way that "Casey at the Bat" has threaded itself into American consciousness, continuing proof of the ballad's relevance to an understand...

A Salute to Cinco de Mayo -- And the International Game

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Wayne County Wanderings: Casey at the Bat

Renowned classicist Bernard Knox (1914-2010) reminded us that the notion in Western culture of "looking forward" from the present into the future, ...

National Poetry Month and "Casey at the Bat" -- Part One

From the Wilson (North Carolina) Times last week (April 12, 2019) came a thoughtful, quietly impassioned column by Sanda Baucom Hight, "Celebrate N...

131 Years of Worcester's "Casey at the Bat" 1888-2019

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Cincinnati and "Casey": The Long Romance

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