SUNSET AND EVENING STAR (339 pp.)—Sean O’Casey—Macmillan ($4.75). Sean O’Casey is a literary salmon who splashed out of a Dublin slum, leaped the rapids of poverty, and has never stopped swimming ...

"The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day"—but it certainly is for this robustly entertaining picture book, as Payne (Micawber) takes a swing at Thayer's beloved poem and knocks it ...

In August 1888, The New York Sun published a poem, attributed to “Anonymous,” called “Casey at the Bat.” And the story of how it ended up in the Sun is a curious one. The light verses were actually by ...

Ernest Thayer’s epic 1883 baseball poem “Casey at the Bat” was an American sensation. The comic ballad about the hometown hero who struck out in a game’s final at-bat meaning there would be “no joy in ...