death_date death_place children birth_place pseudonym nationality birth_date spouse image article_title name partner occupation
21 august 1940 santa barbara , california jillian thayer lawrence , massachusetts phin american 14 august 1863 rosalind buel hammett ernest thayer.jpg ernest thayer
 ernest thayer rose washington poet
ernest thayer

ernest lawrence thayer -lrb- august 14 , 1863 -- august 21 , 1940 -rrb- was an american writer and poet who wrote `` casey at the bat , '' `` the single most famous baseball poem ever written '' according to the baseball almanac , and `` the nation 's best-known piece of comic verse -- a ballad that began a native legend as colorful and permanent as that of johnny appleseed or paul bunyan . ''
