Age
8-11
Grade
PK-7
Ernest L. Thayer, Christopher Bing
Casey At the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888
Hardcover
(Handprint Oct. 1, 2000)
, 1st Edition
"And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out." Those lines have echoed through the decades, the final stanza of a poem published pseudonymously in the June 3, 1888, issue of the San Francisco Examiner. Its author would rather have seen it forgotten. Instead, Ernest Thayer's poem has taken a well-deserved place as an enduring icon of Americana. Christopher Bing's magnificent version of this immortal ballad of the flailing 19th-century baseball star is rendered as though it had been newly discovered in a hundred-year-old scrapbook. Bing seamlessly weaves real and trompe l'oeil reproductions of artifacts-period baseball cards, tickets, advertisements, and a host of other memorabilia into the narrative to present a rich and multifaceted panorama of a bygone era. A book to be pored over by children, treasured by aficionados of the sport-and given as a gift to all ages: a tragi-comic celebration of heroism and of a golden era of sport.
- Series
- Caldecott Honor Book
- ISBN
- 1929766009 / 9781929766000
- Pages
- 32
- Weight
- 16.96 oz.
- Dimensions
- 9.7 x 0.5 in.
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