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

By Jim Moore

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899509975
• ISBN13: 9780899509976
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: McFarland Publishing
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.0"