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 ...

Last week I noted my favorite baseball poem-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Baseball Canto” -- but today marks the 125th anniversary of baseball’s most famous poem, “Casey at the Bat.” It was on June 3, ...

The U.S. is celebrating its 241st birthday. That's a blink of an eye compared to other countries, but we've accomplished quite a bit in that short time, including the development of art forms unique ...

Either Columbus or the Vikings discovered America, baseball was invented in either Cooperstown, N.Y., or Pittsfield, and the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in (your state's name here). The origins ...

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 silence fell upon the patrons of the game. Paste reader, these ...

They thought, if only one at-bat, Casey he could get Egad! Pete Rose could take those odds, and make a hefty bet. Blake caused the fielder’s UZR to drop, when he let the line drive fall. And when the ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (CBS/AP) -- The mighty Casey is still striking out 125 years after he went down in baseball lore, but he has given Tim Wiles a steady side gig. Wiles is director of research at the ...

A ballplayer dressed in a turn-of-the-century, Mudville uniform recites ‘Casey at the Bat’ before 2004 Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies July 25, 2004 in Cooperstown, New York. (Photo by A.

Mighty Casey comes to bat, 114 years after Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s famous poem. Casey’s now making $6.7 million a year while batting .237. And he don’t sign no stinkin’ autographs: There was ease in ...

Opera Saratoga’s production of William Schuman’s “The Mighty Casey” is a gem. Premiered in 1953, the opera in two acts is less than two hours long, but proves, as many pundits would attest, that ...