Ernest Thayer’s epic 1883 baseball poem “Casey at the Bat” was an American sensation. The comic ballad about the hometown hero who struck out in a game’s final at-bat meaning there would be “no joy in ...

Everybody knows the baseball poem “Casey at the Bat” written by Ernest Thayer in 1888, but have you heard of the sequel “Casey’s Comeback”? If not, then enjoy the following poem authored by Pacifica’s ...

Well, 125 years ago this coming Monday. Today, however, Dave D’Alessandro of the Newark Star-Ledger has a remembrance of baseball’s most famous poem, as well as some background on those who have tried ...

For all of the carping these days about the slow pace of baseball, there was a time when our grand, clockless sport fired millions of imaginations. Said firing was helped along by a 24-year-old ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (CBS/AP) -- The mighty Casey is still striking out 125 years after he went down in baseball lore, but he has given Tim Wiles a steady side gig. Wiles is director of research at the ...

Mitchell Nathanson is a professor at Villanova and the author of a forthcoming biography of the pitcher and author Jim Bouton. Read more: Alyssa Rosenberg: The poetry, prose and physics of baseball ...