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 posted a remembrance of "Casey at the Bat" for the 131...

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 understanding of the place of baseball within American cultu...

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 #CaseyattheBat #CaseyalBate #BorntoBaseball  My wif...

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, which had awakened only in medieval times, is not ...

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 National Poetry Month: Poetry is not finished." "P...

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

@tgsports @RedSox @PawSox @telegramdotcom @BaseballBrit @NE_Baseball @baseballhall @OnlyAGameNPR @klgiven @BBHistoryDaily @Worcester_PL @TweetWorcester #CaseyattheBat #RedSox #PawSox As Worcester e...

Cincinnati and "Casey": The Long Romance

@Reds @CincySymphony @CincinnatiPops @EnquirerDoc @EnquirerSports @RedsMuseum @JohnnyBench_5 @redreporter @CityOfCincy @baseballhall @klgiven @sabr @BaseballHistoryDaily #RedsOpeningDay  #BornToBas...

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 reassessment of The Mighty Casey under the title "Poetry an...

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 by Caseyatthe.blog . In Fleming's words, "You may h...