Casey at the Bat A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888

Name: Casey at the Bat A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888
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ISBN: 9781929766000

ISBN-10: 1929766009

ISBN-13: 9781929766000

Edition: 2000

Authors: Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Christopher Bing, E. L. Thayer, C. Bing

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"And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out." Those lines have echoed through the decades, the final stanza of a poem published pseudonymously in the June 3, 1888, issue of the San Francisco Examiner. Its author would rather have seen it forgotten. Instead, Ernest Thayer's poem has taken a well-deserved place as an enduring icon of Americana. Christopher Bing's magnificent version of this immortal ballad of the flailing 19th-century baseball star is rendered as though it had been newly discovered in a hundred-year-old scrapbook. Bing seamlessly weaves real and trompe l'oeil reproductions of artifacts-period…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date: 10/1/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 32
Size: 9.25" wide x 12.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English