Baseball is Poetry: “Casey at the Bat”
“Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888” is considered the Grand Slam of baseball poetry. Penned by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, it was first published in the San Francisco Daily Examiner on June 3, 1888. Casey at the Bat The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;The score … Read more