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The acclaimed biographer offers a social history of the poem that helped America fall in love with baseball.
The sport that came to be known as America's Pastime was still in its infancy when a journalist for the San Francisco Examiner wrote a ballad extolling the drama and excitement of the game. Ernest L. Thayer's Casey at the Bat made its first appearance in the Examiner on June 3, 1888. But the immortal tale of Mighty Casey was destined to become...
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