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Ballad of the Republic: The Arming of the Man
August 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 Bat" by De Wolf...
Ballad of the Republic: The Arming of the Man
August 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 Bat" by De Wolf...
Ambrose Bierce and The Fall of the Republic
Demagogues fixed a predatory eye on the inherent flaws of the American Republic. Like buzzards they circled the wounded behemoth thrashing in a bog, while a mob assembled on the...
Ambrose Bierce and The Fall of the Republic
Demagogues fixed a predatory eye on the inherent flaws of the American Republic. Like buzzards they circled the wounded behemoth thrashing in a bog, while a mob assembled on the...
Pathos and Baseball: Revisiting "Casey at the Bat"
"There's no crying in baseball..." in the iconic line uttered by Tom Hanks in his role as manager Jimmy Dugan in the 1992 movie "A League of Their Own." Well, there...
Pathos and Baseball: Revisiting "Casey at the Bat"
"There's no crying in baseball..." in the iconic line uttered by Tom Hanks in his role as manager Jimmy Dugan in the 1992 movie "A League of Their Own." Well, there...
The Ballad of Sam Winslow
If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal, it would not surprise us. [1] --Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men Painting...
The Ballad of Sam Winslow
If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal, it would not surprise us. [1] --Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men Painting...
Misappropriation of the Classics, Part II: Hora...
On December 11 of last year, Caseyatthe.blog called out the misleading and "pernicious misappropriation" of an ancient Roman legend by right-wing propagandist Steve Bannon, who at that time was exhorting...
Misappropriation of the Classics, Part II: Hora...
On December 11 of last year, Caseyatthe.blog called out the misleading and "pernicious misappropriation" of an ancient Roman legend by right-wing propagandist Steve Bannon, who at that time was exhorting...
Casey Stops by the Ball Park on a Snowy Evening
“One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.” -- Robert Frost (1874-1963) Whose field this was I used to know But that was...
Casey Stops by the Ball Park on a Snowy Evening
“One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.” -- Robert Frost (1874-1963) Whose field this was I used to know But that was...