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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Ernest Thayer's Casey at the Bat: Background and Characters of Baseball's Most Famous Poem

Ernest Thayer's Casey at the Bat: Background and Characters of Baseball's Most Famous Poem

Moore, Jim

Paperback

Baseball & SoftballGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0786467118
ISBN13: 9780786467112
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Dec 14 2011
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Ernest Thayer's Casey at the Bat was first published in the San Francisco Daily Examiner on June 3, 1888. Its popularity owed much to the universality of its subject; every city seemed to have a Casey on its team. Thayer, a Harvard graduate, said little about the real Casey, though he did leave a few clues. The verses owe their existence, he wrote in 1930, to my enthusiasm for college baseball...and to my association with Will Hearst. Thayer's background is examined here as the basis for determining the origins of the colorfast cast of characters behind his Ballad of the Republic--men who may have been Casey, Flynn, Cooney and other members of the Mudville Nine.

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