
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 (...
Read moreThe dedicated sleuthing of MLB's official historian, John Thorn, has brought to light a "companion piece" to "Casey at the Bat," dating to October ...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreErnest Thayer's classmate George Santayana wrote in an 1894 essay ("Philosophy on the Bleachers") of the inherent drama (and potential tragedy) e...
Read moreCasey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888 #CaseyattheBat #BalladoftheRepublic "Casey's" subtitle, "A Ballad of the Republi...
Read more"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-...
Read moreA 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...
Read moreBy 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...
Read moreOn 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...
Read more14 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...
Read moreUpdate December 31, 2022: On Wednesday, December 28, 2022, Quincy native and Red Sox poet laureate Dick Flavin passed away at South Shore Hospital....
Read moreWhile documenting the on-going legend of "Casey at the Bat," Caseyatthe.blog attempts to give credit and wider circulation to contemporary re-tell...
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