Casey at the Bat

Casey at the Bat is an animated short and a segment of Make Mine Music. It was reissued as a stand-alone short on July 16, 1954.
==Synopsis==
The Disney version of the poem about baseball slugger Casey, and his valiant stand to try to win the game for Mudville.
Changes to this version include an extended narration of Cooney's attempt to get off base, Barrows failing to get off base by inadvertently hitting the ball back into the pitcher's mitt, Flynn getting a single due to trying to untangle his mustache from his bat and Blake getting a double due to a backfired attempt by the visiting team's catcher to set hos foot on fire.
==Characters==
*Casey
*Cooney
*Flynn
*Jimmy Blake
*Pitcher
*Umpire (voiced by John Brown)
*Ladies from the Stand (voiced by Dessie Flynn and Norma Swank)
==Trivia==
*A close-up view of the musicians in the band reveals some of the Disney animators including four of the Nine Old Men, Ward Kimball (tubist), Frank Thomas (drummer), Ollie Johnston (trombonist), and Marc Davis (trumpeter), and producer Walt Disney (flautist).
==Releases (standalone)==
===Film===
*Walt Disney's Festival Folk of Heroes
===Television===
*Disneyland, episode #4.2: "Four Fabulous Characters" (1957)
*The New Mickey Mouse Club, March 16, 1977
*Disney's Wonderful World, episode #26.4: "Baseball Fever"
*Donald's Quack Attack, episode #41
*The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.52: "Rah! Rah! Disney Goes Athletic"
===VHS===
*Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Disney's Tall Tales
==Gallery==
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Makeminemusic-disneyscreencaps com-1277.jpg|Casey along with the Umpire.
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Disney's Casey at the Bat - Ladies from the Stand - Red-Haired Lady - Kill Him!.jpg|Red-Haired Lady: "Kill him!"
Disney's Casey at the Bat - Ladies from the Stand - Red-Haired Lady - Kill the Umpire!.jpg|"Kill the umpire!"
Disney's Casey at the Bat - Ladies from the Stand - Red-Haired Lady with a Pin.jpg|Narrator: "Yelled the cutie from the stand." Taking a pin out of her hat to try to kill the Umpire.
Makeminemusic-disneyscreencaps com-1487.jpg|"And not Casey raised his hand."
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Makeminemusic-disneyscreencaps com-1494.jpg|"With a smile of Christian charity,..."
Disney's Casey at the Bat - Ladies from the Stand - Gasping.jpg|The Ladies gasping in awe and shock.
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Makeminemusic-disneyscreencaps com-1729.jpg|Casey bawling and crying after losing the game.
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==External links==
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Category:Make Mine Music
Category:1946 shorts
Category:Animated shorts
Category:Films featuring Sports
Category:Make Mine Music segments