page_title: Casey at the Bat
hierarchical_section_title: Casey at the Bat
caption_attribution_description: English: A role-player takes the guise of 'Casey', from Ernest Lawrence Thayer's story "Casey at the Bat" during the 2008 baseball Hall of Fame game June 16.
context_page_description: "Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888" is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. First published in The San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888, it was later popularized by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville performances. It has become one of the best-known poems in American literature. The poem was originally published anonymously.
context_section_description: "Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888" is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. First published in The San Francisco Examiner (then called The Daily Examiner) on June 3, 1888, it was later popularized by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville performances. It has become one of the best-known poems in American literature.  The poem was originally published anonymously (under the pen name "Phin", based on Thayer's college nickname, "Phinney").
caption: Tim Wiles, former Director of Research at the Baseball Hall of Fame Library in Cooperstown, frequently dresses as Casey to recite the poem.
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