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 mere perils of hero worship. In fact, 'Casey' carr...

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 tribute to the memory of The Mighty Casey. Ever sin...

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 manager chose to pitch to Casey, when first base ...

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 turned on me."  Yes, humor is still being written about...

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 last decade of his life would Thayer modify--in a sig...

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 Mighty Casey"--who rapidly became a legend to re...