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The Love Song of E. "Phineas" Thayer

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...

Is sports all about winning? Or all about losing?

Ernest Thayer's classmate George Santayana wrote in an 1894 essay ("Philosophy on the Bleachers") of the inherent drama (and potential tragedy) e...

Why the Ballad of the Republic?

Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888 #CaseyattheBat #BalladoftheRepublic "Casey's" subtitle, "A Ballad of the Republic...

Casey @ the Bat

"Casey @ the Bat" (Subtitled "A poem for baseball in the modern era") is the latest addition to the "Casey" canon! This masterful take on the time-...

Mueller at the Bar

A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 2019 #MuellerReport #MuellerTime #MuellersReport @POETS.org @PoetryFound @poetrymagazine #PoetryMonth #C...

The Strange Romance of a Bold Detective

By far the best of Thayer's 1887 "pre-Casey" ballads was "The Strange Romance of a Bold But Unfortunate Detective," published in the Examiner on S...