…history of baseball, cite “Casey at the Bat” as the best baseball poem ever written. Spalding goes so far as to proclaim that “Love has its sonnets galore; War its epics in heroic verse; Tragedy its sombre story in measured line; and Base Ball has ‘Casey at the Bat’.”… ...
Ernest Thayer was a 1885 Harvard grad (majoring in philosophy) and onetime contributor to the school’s legendary “Harvard Lampoon” magazine. He first published his poem, “Casey at the Bat,” in the “San Francisco Examiner” on June 3rd of 1888. It ran without an author’s credit. ...
"Casey at the Bat" Poem The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; The score stood four to two with but one inning more to play. And then, when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same, A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game. A straggling...
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout, But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out. https://poets.org/poem/casey-bat 朗读内容的原文请点击文末的「...
Casey has a chance to win the game but he strikes out (= fails to hit the ball three times and is dismissed). The poem ends: “And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;But there is no joy in Mudville – Mighty Casey has struck out.” Questions about grammar and...
'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 autho...
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888 Debut childrens book illustrator Bing hits a home run with this handsome faux-scrapbook treatment of Thayers immortal poem. The original verses about baseball star Casey and the ill-fated Mudville nine appeared in the San Fran...
contemporary artists in stunning hardcover editions. "Casey at the Bat," the fourth book in the series, is more than a poem about a proud and mighty slugger who strikes out during the big game. It is a slice of baseball lore, as much a part of the game as hot dogs and the seventh...
classic American poem, Casey at the Bat, with original music composed and conducted by Stephen Simon. Created for the bicentennial in 1976 and performed on the Stories in Music™ children's series at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, this classic poem is brough to life in an...(展开...
Originally published in the "San Francisco Examiner" on June 3, 1888, the poem was attributed to a nickname, which resulted in a question of authorship. The poet's author, Ernest J. Thayer, claimed authorship and confirmed ...