![]() Hopper went on to recite the poem for appreciative audiences thousands of times.Īs far as poetry goes, Thayer was a total one-hit wonder. One of those ballads, "Casey at the Bat," became kind of a cultural phenomenon not long after its 1888 publication when an actor/comedian named William DeWolf Hopper (great name) did a dramatic reading of the poem as part of his act. He worked at the San Francisco Examiner and occasionally wrote comic ballads for the paper's Sunday edition. In life, though, Thayer was more of a journalist than a poet. ![]() We're talking about Ernest Thayer's poem, " Casey at the Bat." It's a baseball poem that's full of action and drama, complete with a super-suspenseful surprise ending. This isn't the synopsis for a new season of Friday Night Lights-wrong sport, wrong medium. ![]() A small town stands united behind their local sports team and the team's star player as they try to make a spectacular comeback against seemingly insurmountable odds. ![]()
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