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Queci al bate

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...

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...

A Week to Remember: Casey at the Bat

Note from Caseyatthe.blog Keith Chaffee, Librarian at the Collection Development department of the Los Angeles Public Library, has post...

On Heroism, Hubris, and Humility

I love the way that "Casey at the Bat" has threaded itself into American consciousness, continuing proof of the ballad's relevance to an understand...

A Salute to Cinco de Mayo -- And the International Game

@Reds @Cardinals @peloteros_MLB @MLB_PLAYERS @MLB @LigaMexBeis @MiLB @WBSC @WBSCPresident @Baseball @WBSCsoftball @WBSC_AMERICAS @USABaseball_ESP #...

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

@tgsports @RedSox @PawSox @telegramdotcom @BaseballBrit @NE_Baseball @baseballhall @OnlyAGameNPR @klgiven @BBHistoryDaily @Worcester_PL @TweetWorce...

Cincinnati and "Casey": The Long Romance

@Reds @CincySymphony @CincinnatiPops @EnquirerDoc @EnquirerSports @RedsMuseum @JohnnyBench_5 @redreporter @CityOfCincy @baseballhall @klgiven @sabr...

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...