casey at the bat

     

"Casey at the Bat", subtitle "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.

Trivia about casey at the bat

  • It begins, "It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville Nine that day"
  • Ernest L. Thayer is represented by a pair of quotations, both from this baseball poem
  • This 1888 baseball poem got its first of many big screen treatments in 1899
  • In this poem, there are two out, two on base, and the score is: Opponents, 4Mudville, 2
  • This popular poem begins, "It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville Nine that day"
  • Famous 1888 poem about the Mudville nine
  • This poem set in Mudville was first published in the San Francisco Examiner, in 1888

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