Who is Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Ernest Lawrence Thayer (; August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey" (or "Casey at the Bat"), which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, and "the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native legend as colorful and permanent as that of Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan."BiographyThayer was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and raised in nearby Worcester. He graduated magna cum laude in philosophy from Harvard University in 1885, where he had been editor of the Harvard Lampoon and a member of the theatrical society Hasty Pudding. William Randolph Hearst, a friend from both activities, hired Thayer as humor columnist for The San Francisco Examiner 1886–88.Thaye...
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Ernest Lawrence Thayer Poems

• Casey At The Bat
  The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day:
  The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play,
  And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
  A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game....

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