Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer

Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer

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.

An undergraduate contributor to the Harvard Lampoon, Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863-1940) took his satiric talents to the San Francisco Examiner at the invitation of his former classmate, William Randolph Hearst. Casey at the Bat made its first appearance under a pseudonym in an 1888 issue of the Examiner.

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ISBN 13	9780792450511
ISBN 10	0792450515
Title	Casey at the Bat
Author	Ernest Thayer
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Publisher	Bdd Promotional Book Co
Year published	1990-07-01
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