Sir, yes sir: an interview with Casey Spooner of Fischerspooner Dallas Voice: The name of the band, Fischerspooner, combines your name with longtime collaborator Warren Fischer. You’ve co-written ...

The score stood four to two, with but one inning left to play. Yup. "Casey at the Bat," performed by DeWolf Hopper in 1909. No poem set in a game has achieved the notoriety of Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s ...

Frank Deford puts aside his gripes this week to pay tribute to the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, first published in theSan Francisco Examiner 125 years ago June 3. The Outlook wasn't brilliant for ...

The Outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day: The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play. And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same, A sickly ...

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 ...