Ernest Lawrence Thayer
(1863–1940)

Ernest Lawrence Thayer was born in California. He worked there and in New York as a newspaper writer and often published his poems in the newspapers on which he worked. Today, Thayer is remembered best for one work, "Casey at the Bat." This humorous poem grew out of his love of baseball, with its style at least partly reflecting Thayer's work as a reporter. In fact, you could almost read it as a sports story in verse. "Casey at the Bat" was popularized by a comedian, De Wolf Hopper, who reflected it in theaters.

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