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Bookmark or Share- Casey at the Bat - WikipediaKurtis Scaletta's 2009 children's novel, Mudville, is about a town where it has been raining for 22 years, delaying a baseball game between two rival towns. Christopher Bing's 2000 children's book, an illustrated version of the original poem by Thayer, won a Caldecott Honor for its line drawing illustrations made to look like newspaper articles ...
- Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer | Poetry FoundationCasey at the Bat. By Ernest Lawrence Thayer. A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888. 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.
- Casey at the Bat (Poem + Analysis)Thayer’s ‘Casey at the Bat’ captures the instability of baseball, where Mudville’s hero, Casey, strikes out, turning hopes into despair. Read Poem. PDF Guide.
- What was Casey at the Bat based on - MLB.comIt couldn't last forever: Eventually, it was time for Thayer to head back home and finally join the family business. But before he did, he decided to file one last column -- a poem, the story of a baseball team from a town called Mudville and the hometown hero who strikes out in his final at-bat. It ran on Sunday, June 3, 1888, in its usual place, inconspicuously sandwiched between some ...
- meaning and origin of the phrase ‘no joy in Mudville’ - word historiesThe American-English phrase no joy in Mudville denotes a sense of pervasive and shared disappointment. It alludes to the defeat of the baseball team of Mudville, a fictional town in Casey at the Bat. A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888. This ballad was written by the U.S. poet Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863-1940) and first published ...
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