On this day in 1888, "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was published in the San Francisco Examiner.The poem received very little attention and a few weeks later it was partially republished in the New York Sun, as Anon.
It's considered the most famous baseball poem ever written. Albert Spalding wrote of it:
"Love has its sonnets galore. War has its epics in heroic verse. Tragedy its sombre story in measured lines. Baseball has Casey at the Bat."
Hear a snippet of the poem read aloud by William De Wolf Hopper.
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