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Wayne County Wanderings: Casey at the Bat

Wayne County Wanderings: Casey at the Bat

Renowned classicist Bernard Knox (1914-2010) reminded us that the notion in Western culture of "looking forward" from the present into the future, ...

National Poetry Month and "Casey at the Bat" -- Part One

From the Wilson (North Carolina) Times last week (April 12, 2019) came a thoughtful, quietly impassioned column by Sanda Baucom Hight, "Celebrate N...

131 Years of Worcester's "Casey at the Bat" 1888-2019

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Cincinnati and "Casey": The Long Romance

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Poetry and Baseball: Revisiting "Casey at the Bat" with Bill Littlefield

The irrepressible Bill Littlefield, prolific author and former host of WBUR's "Only A Game," penned at the outset of the 2017 season this reassessm...

Baseball's Greatest Poem Is About a Loser

Colin Fleming's literary tribute to "Baseball's Greatest Poem" deserves a significant place in this compendium of current wit and wisdom compiled b...

Caseyatthe.blog responds to "Know It All" at San Mateo Daily Journal

Caseyatthe.blog corrects the record with San Mateo Daily Journal's "Know It All:" "There is a lot more to learn from ['Casey at the Bat'] than the ...

There is no joy in Mudbugville. For now.

"There is no joy in Mudbugville. For now," by Mike Scott in NOLA.com, conveys the all-too-recent grief of New Orleans Saints fans with a handsome t...

Casey at the Sabermetric Bat

Fantastic piece of analysis of the circumstances of Casey's famous at-bat by Leigh Allan from SBNation! And have you ever wondered why the opposing...

Casey "At the Bat" Responds to That Mean Poem About Him

Casey asks "What the hell? I thought you liked me because I hit a bunch of homers, but I guess I was wrong. I cannot believe how fast you all turne...

Sam Winslow

For most of his life, when Ernest Thayer was asked about the origins of "Casey at the Bat," he was quick to respond "Sam Winslow." Only in the las...

Why Caseyatthe.blog?

So why devote a blog in 2019 to the story of a poem written by a nearly unknown author in 1888? For one thing, the poem created a character --"the...