Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat": Background and Characters of Baseball's Most Famous Poem

by Jim Moore and Natalie Vermilyea

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Ernest Thayers Casey at the Bat was first published in the San Francisco Daily Examiner in 1888. Thayers background is examined here as the basis for determining the origins of the colorful characters behind his Ballad of the Republic--men who may have been Casey, Flynn, Cooney and other members of the Mudville Nine.
  • ISBN10 0899509975
  • ISBN13 9780899509976
  • Publish Date 1 October 1994
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 24 April 2009
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 400
  • Language English