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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mitchell Nathanson is a professor at Villanova and the author of a forthcoming biography of the pitcher and author Jim Bouton. Read more: Alyssa Rosenberg: The poetry, prose and physics of baseball ...