Casey at the Bat

By Miss Cellania in Book & Literature, Sports on Dec 20, 2008 at 9:47 am

Here’s a pleasant diversion for baseball fans! You know the poem Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer. Now see the entire poem rendered in an appropriate medium -baseball cards! Link -Thanks, Ben Henry!

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vero4902
Dec 20th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Hmm, kinda hard to follow at times, but enjoyable!
Tiny Dancer
Dec 20th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Yeah, a little hard to read on a few cards (helps if you know the poem), but well worth the effort, thanks, Miss C.!
ted
Dec 20th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
There’s a lot of ugly baseball players out there.
liphttam1
Dec 20th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Casy at bat was a poem? I have it as a book.
SparkS
Dec 21st, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Casey at the Bat
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“Casey at the Bat”, subtitled “A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888″, is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. First published in the San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888, it was later popularized by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville performances.

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