It's been 140 years since the epic "Battle of Brooklyn" between baseball rivals Harvard and Yale for the Inter-Collegiate championship. April 11, t...
Read moreSuppose the Bard of Concord, Ralph Waldo Emerson, had written "Casey at the Bat..."
Read moreWhat if Edgar Allan Poe--rather than Clement Clarke Moore--had written the poem better known by its first line, "'Twas the night before Christmas.....
Read moreWanted: "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 moreIn 2023, "Casey in Ulalysium" was nominated for the fifth annual Saturday "Visiter" Awards, a feature of the International Edgar Allan Poe Festiva...
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...
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