Considered the greatest baseball poem of all time, ‘Casey at the Bat’ is the beloved tale of the Mudville Nine, a hapless baseball club entering the ninth inning of a ballgame down two runs and with little hope of succeeding…unless their star slugger Casey can manage to get a turn at the plate. With two outs, the outlook is grim but…when the two players preceding Casey manage to get on base, the stage is set for a grand finale, giving the citizens of Mudville hope that their hero can save the day!
Ernest Lawrence Thayer originally wrote this poem for the San Francisco Examiner and it would go on to become what Baseball Almanac called ‘the single most famous baseball poem ever written.’ It is here presented in its original and unabridged form.
About the author
Ernest Lawrence Thayer was a newspaper columnist and poet. He was born August 14, 1863, in Lawrence, Massachusetts and graduated with a BA in philosophy from Harvard University in 1885. While at Harvard, Thayer was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club edited the Harvard Lampoon and became friends with future mega-publisher William Randolph Hearst.After they graduated, Hearst hired Thayer to write a humorous column for one of his newspapers, the San Francisco Examiner. On June 3, 1883, Thayer wrote his last column for the Examiner, publishing the poem ‘Casey at the Bat, ‘ under the pen name Phin. Years later, the poem would become immensely popular after the actor William De Wolf Hopper began performing it as a part of his theatrical and radio performances. It would go on to become ‘the single most famous baseball poem ever written’ according to the Baseball Almanac Thayer moved to Santa Barbara, California, in 1912 and died there on August 21, 1940.
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