That is probably the ultimate appeal of “Casey at the Bat.” It reflects baseball's core reality.
And the first sportswriter to go from covering a major league team to managing it was Freeman Brown of the Telegram, also in 1882. Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengel - no relation to the poem, by the way - managed his first professional game here in 1925. The first doubleheader was played here in 1882 when Worcester was in the National League. The first perfect game was pitched here in 1880. What is considered to be the game's First Poem is hardly the only baseball “first” connected with this city. Thayer in the spring of 1888 at his family's home at 67 Chatham St.Īnd “Casey at the Bat” first made it into print exactly 125 years ago today - Jin the San Francisco Examiner. “Casey at the Bat,” the definitive baseball poem, was written right here by Ernest L. The origins of one treasured item from our collective past are undisputed, though. Either Columbus or the Vikings discovered America, baseball was invented in either Cooperstown, N.Y., or Pittsfield, and the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in (your state's name here).
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