Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year
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 ,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-cent