Cover of Casey at the Bat — a batter in white flannels and red stockings standing at the plate before a sunlit crowd

A Sunlit Garden · daytime poems, newly illustrated

Casey at the Bat

A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888

Ernest Lawrence Thayer

The score stood two to four with just one inning left to play, and ten thousand eyes are on the mighty Casey. Thayer’s fifty-two lines exactly as the San Francisco Examiner printed them on 3 June 1888, painted in broad afternoon daylight.

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