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In Search of "Casey's" Companions: "A Tale of Two Clowns"

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 Republi...

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 The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville Nine that day; The score was four to t...

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...

"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

Update December 31, 2022: On Wednesday, December 28, 2022, Quincy native and Red Sox poet laureate Dick Flavin passed away at South Shore Hospital....

Casey 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

#LondonSeries #FestivalofBaseballUK #MLBintheUK @mlblondonseries @mlbuk @MLBUKCommunity @baseball_ref @thorn_john @SABR @baseballhof @BaseballBrit ...

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...