Books with title Casey at the Bat

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Casey at the Bat is also called as A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888. The poem is about playing baseball where two teams compete with each other but in the end, only one team wins. Baseball is a game using a bat and a ball played among two teams of nine players each, who take chances in batting and fielding. The batting team tries to score runs by striking a ball thrown by the pitcher with a bat shifted by the batter, then goes in the opposite direction in a series of four bases. Ernest Lawrence Thayer was a writer and poet who had written the poem Casey or Casey at the Bat, which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" as stated in the Baseball Almanac, and "the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native legend as colorful and permanent as that of Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan.” Ernest was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts and grew up near Worcester. He was magna cum laude in philosophy from Harvard University, where he became the editor of the Harvard Lampoon and a member of the theatrical society Hasty Pudding. William Randolph Hearst, a friend from those affairs, employed Thayer as humor columnist for the San Francisco Examiner. It was not until so many months after the print of the poem Casey that he became renowned for it, because he was barely the arrogant kind and had used the pen name Phin which he had used since became a writer for the Harvard Lampoon. Two secrets endure of the poem: whether Casey and Mudville were a true person or place, and, if so, their real profiles. Katie Zezima of The New York Times wrote an article entitled "In 'Casey' Rhubarb, 2 Cities Cry 'Foul!'" on the contrasting statements of two towns to such repute as Stockton, California, and Holliston, Massachusetts.