'Home Run' Casey
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Synopsis. A baseball team from the fictional town of "Mudville" (the home team) is losing by two runs in its last inning. Both the team and its fans, a crowd of 5,000, believe that they can win if Casey, Mudville's star player, gets to bat.
For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat. There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place; There was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile lit Casey's face.
For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat. There was ease in Casey’s manner as he stepped into his place; There was pride in Casey’s bearing and a smile on Casey’s face.
‘Casey at the Bat,’ also known by the full title ‘Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888’ was written by Ernest Tayler in 1888. It focuses on baseball and was first published anonymously under the pseudonym “Phin” in The Daily Examiner in the same year.
May 13, 2011 · Ernest Lawrence Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey" (or "Casey at the Bat"), which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, and "the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native legend as colorful and permanent as that of Johnny Appleseed ...
Jun 3, 2024 · Casey at the Bat is considered the most famous baseball poem ever written. Ernest Lawrence Thayer hit this one right out of the park in 1888 when it was published in the the San Francisco Daily Examiner.
Jan 18, 2024 · Famous Single Poems (1924) by Burton Egbert Stevenson. Casey at the Bat by Ernest L. Thayer. If I Should Die To-night. →. CASEY AT THE BAT. The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day: The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play, And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
