Ernest Lawrence Thayer Comments

This poem was a “moment” in my life. Fourth grade. Mrs. Woodward.

I recently purchased a rare lithograph printed in 1888 New York It pictures a young De wolf Hopper he is the actor that made Casey at the Bat. Famous reciting it over 10,000 times. That’s a Guinness book world record. He is also a member of the baseball hall of fame. This lithograph is advertisement for his appearance at the court square theatre in Springfield Massachusetts, April 16,1891and is only one of two known to exist. To see this rare photo email me

your so wierd get a new life

I think I heard Grys Rys Jones recite this in The Nations Favourite Poems, putting on an American accent, very amusing.