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"Casey at the Bat" as it first appeared, June 3, 1888 " Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888 " is a mock-heroic poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer . It was first published anonymously in The San Francisco Examiner (then called The Daily Examiner ) on June 3, 1888, under the pen name "Phin", based on Thayer's ...
Ernest Lawrence Thayer (/ ˈ θ eɪ ər /; August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940) 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, [1] and "the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native legend as colorful and permanent as that of ...
Articles relating to the poem "Casey at the Bat" (1888) by Ernest Thayer, and its adaptations. Pages in category "Casey at the Bat" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
June 3 – American writer Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" is first published (under the pen name "Phin") as the last of his humorous contributions to The San Francisco Examiner. Works published
Heck, he also once did a reading of “Casey at the Bat.” “Field of Dreams” remains the masterpiece, the standard, a signature moment in a stellar career that featured him voicing Darth Vader .
Casey at the Bat is a 1927 American silent film, directed by Monte Brice, written by Ernest Thayer and based on the 1888 baseball poem of the same name. The picture stars Wallace Beery , Ford Sterling , ZaSu Pitts and Sterling Holloway in his film debut.
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