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 ...

Baseball’s premier poem “Casey at the Bat” first appeared in print 120 years ago today. Ever since, it has claimed a highly honored place in Americana and carved a niche in American folklore.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Either Columbus or the Vikings discovered America, baseball was invented in either Cooperstown, N.Y., or Pittsfield, and the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in (your state's name here). The origins ...

Not long ago in this very space, we recognized the 125th anniversary of "Casey at the Bat," Ernest Thayer's classic baseball poem that first ran in San Francisco's Daily Examiner on June 3, 1888. On ...

It’s been 136 years since “Casey at the Bat,” one of the most famous poems in American literature, was first published. And in all of that time, the concluding line of Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s ballad ...

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 ...