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 ...

"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 ...

Sometime in 1890 or thereabouts - no one knows the exact date - an event took place at the Worcester Club on Elm Street. DeWolf Hopper met Ernest Thayer and listened to Thayer recite a poem that he ...

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 ...

It was this week, exactly 125 years ago, that baseball history was made without one hit. It wasn’t a no-hitter. It wasn’t even a real game. It was 1888 and the first publication of perhaps the most ...

For his final career turn, which brought national acclaim, Dick Flavin drew inspiration from his boyhood love of Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s poem “Casey at the Bat.” “Wow, I thought to myself, a poem ...

Legend has it that the famed baseball poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Thayer was written in Worcester, where he grew up. Ted Williams hit his first home run as a Red Sox player in the city. And ...

"Casey at the Bat" is a baseball ballad that has sustained its fame since shortly after appearing as filler in the San Francisco Examiner in June 1888. Ernest Lawrence Thayer's poem's concluding ...