Featuring a dramatic narrative about a baseball game, the poem titled "Casey at the Bat" written by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was later popularized by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville performances. It has become one of the best-known poems in American literature.
Originally published: June 3, 1888
Author: Ernest Lawrence Thayer
About the Poet:
Ernest Lawrence Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey", which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac. He graduated from Harvard University.
Born: August 14, 1863, Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States
Died: August 21, 1940 (age 77 years), Santa Barbara, California, United States
This poem is narrated by Rick Kessler.