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

Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat" was first published in the San Francisco Daily Examiner in 1888.

Thayer's 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.