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However, residents of Stockton, California—which was known for a time as Mudville prior to incorporation in 1850—also lay claim to being the inspiration for the poem. In 1887, Thayer covered baseball for The Daily Examiner—owned by his Harvard classmate William Randolph Hearst—and is said to have covered the local California League team ...
Robert Francis (August 12, 1901 – July 13, 1987) was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts.. His 1953 poem, “The Pitcher”, is a classic work among coaches, athletes, baseball players—and pitchers and artists.
Ernest Lawrence Thayer (/ ˈ θ eɪ ər /; August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey" (or "Casey at the Bat"), which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, [1] and "the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native legend as colorful and permanent as that of ...
Thank you, Yankees, for the gift that keeps on giving. You will be receiving a thank you from Dodger heaven from Tommy Lasorda, Vin Scully and Fernando Valenzuela for the generous gift you gave us ...
Pages in category "Baseball poems" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Baseball's Sad Lexicon; C.
"Line-Up for Yesterday: An ABC of Baseball Immortals" is a poem written by Ogden Nash for the January 1949 issue of SPORT Magazine.In the poem, Nash dedicates each letter of the alphabet to a legendary Major League Baseball player.
At the contemporary rate of 15p per day, the charge may have been around £3,434, but all fines were capped at £15. In-house publishing company Tyne Bridge offered the anonymous person some books as a thank you, if they came forward. [21] Cultures and Societies of Africa: Cambridge University Library: 26 Sept 2019 59
However, the 1926 Miami hurricane and Great Depression cost Tinker most of his fortune, and he returned to professional baseball in the late 1930s. With the Cubs, Tinker was a part of a great double-play combination with teammates Johnny Evers and Frank Chance that was immortalized as "Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance" in the poem "Baseball's Sad ...