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However, residents of Stockton, California—which was known for a time as Mudville prior to incorporation in 1850—also lay claim to being the inspiration for the poem. In 1887, Thayer covered baseball for The Daily Examiner—owned by his Harvard classmate William Randolph Hearst—and is said to have covered the local California League team ...
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Robert Francis (August 12, 1901 – July 13, 1987) was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts.. His 1953 poem, “The Pitcher”, is a classic work among coaches, athletes, baseball players—and pitchers and artists.
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 ...
Pages in category "Baseball poems" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Baseball's Sad Lexicon; C.
"Line-Up for Yesterday: An ABC of Baseball Immortals" is a poem written by Ogden Nash for the January 1949 issue of SPORT Magazine.In the poem, Nash dedicates each letter of the alphabet to a legendary Major League Baseball player.
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Ronald Michael Luciano (June 28, 1937 – January 18, 1995) was an American professional baseball umpire who worked in Major League Baseball's American League from 1969 to 1979. He was known for his flamboyant style, clever aphorisms, and a series of published collections of anecdotes from his colorful career.