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I'm lost. Adrift in Americam pop culture references again, I suspect.

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 706270)

well played

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 706289)

Seconded.

Thankee! ;)

There's typos in that version. This link has a cleaner copy and an audio of the poem by De Wolf Hopper:
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_case.shtml

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When William De Wolf Hopper performed the poem at Wallack's Theatre, on Broadway and 30th Street in New York City, players from the New York Giants and Chicago White Stockings were guests in the auditorium.
Ernest Lawrence Thayer actually wrote three versions of Casey at the Bat — the first printing, a self-corrupted version, and the revised version.