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Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888 #CaseyattheBat #BalladoftheRepublic "Casey's" subtitle, "A Ballad of the Republic," remains the most enigmatic aspect of "Casey at...

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-honored legend appeared in the Washington Post on ...

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 two with but one inning left to play. A...

At the height of the Gilded Age, a young gentleman leans across the counter to court an attractive young barmaid.

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 Sunday, November 20, 1887. It is also perhaps the mo...

"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' Leaves A Lot of Unanswered Questions." We reprod...

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 continuing legend of Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat...

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. The multi-talented Flavin worked as a speechwrite...

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-tellings of Thayer's saga. John DeWolfe's version stan...

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 members to post Ernest Thayer's ballad on #Caseyatthe.b...