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On this date: 1893 – The first recorded version of Casey at the Bat, as recited by Russell Hunting, hits the music charts. DeWolf Hopper’s more famous version will not be released until October 1906. 1969 – Attorney Bowie Kuhn is named commissioner, succeeding Spike Eckert. Kuhn receives a one-year contract paying him $100,000. Major [...]
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A few weeks back I posted an entry about Diane Firstman’s imaginative baseball rendition of The 12 Days of Christmas on her Value Over Replacement Grit blog. Well, she’s at it again, this time deconstructing the classic poem “Casey at the Bat” to see how many times the scenario — home team down 4-2 with [...]
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Save the Date — Poet Ernest L. Thayer, whose signature piece, Casey at the Bat, has been recited for more than 100 years, will be recognized with a plaque affixed to the stoop of his former home in Lawrence, MA in a ceremony on March 19. From the story: Mark Schorr, executive director of the [...]
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Why do so many stories about baseball — especially old-tyme baseball — feature a character named Casey? In this case, it’s a 50-year-old episode of Twilight Zone titled, “The Mighty Casey.” My arch-nemesis, Books on Baseball, did the legwork on this one.
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The host of A Prairie Home Companion is recovering from a minor stroke suffered this past weekend. (Of course “minor” is when it happens to someone else.) Keillor wrote one of the more amusing “Casey at the Bat” parodies.
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WickedLocal.com, a New England outfit, ran this piece on Ernest Lawrence Thayer, creator of the classic “Casey at the Bat,” which has spaened dozens of editions and collections of parodies. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2F0qC1-sa0&hl=en&fs=1] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reY68mDYFKk&hl=en&fs=1] This one isn’t read very well, but the video is kind of cool. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLThYXo_Ht4&hl=en&fs=1]
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A new twist on an old classic.
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In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
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What I just read:
Southern League: A True Story of Baseball, Civil Rights, and the Deep South's Most Compelling Pennant Race
Well-intentioned, but somewhat disappointing in delivery of the intended message. B-.
What I'm reading now
Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age
First Impressions: Too soon to tell.
What I'm RE-reading now
Play for a Kingdom
What's next:
Gil Hodges: The Brooklyn Bums, the Miracle Mets, and the Extraordinary Life of a Baseball Legend
Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game
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