Ernest L. Thayer's Casey at the Bat
A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888
Brooklyn, NY : Handprint Books, 2000.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 31 cm
"And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out." Those lines have echoed through the decades, the final stanza of a poem published pseudonymously in the June 3, 1888, issue of the San Francisco Examiner. Its author would rather have seen it forgotten. Instead, Ernest Thayer's poem has taken a well-deserved place as an enduring icon of Americana. Christopher Bing's magnificent version of this immortal ballad of the flailing 19th-century baseball star is rendered as though it had been newly discovered in a hundred-year-old scrapbook. Bing seamlessly weaves real and trompe l'oeil reproductions of artifacts-period baseball cards, tickets, advertisements, and a host of other memorabilia into the narrative to present a rich and multifaceted panorama of a bygone era. A book to be pored over by children, treasured by aficionados of the sport-and given as a gift to all ages: a tragi-comic celebration of heroism and of a golden era of sport.
Subjects:
Casey, Brian Kavanagh, 1859-1946 -- Juvenile poetry.
Baseball players -- Juvenile poetry.
Baseball -- Juvenile poetry.
Casey, Brian Kavanagh, 1859-1946 -- Juvenile poetry.
Baseball players -- Juvenile poetry.
Baseball -- Juvenile poetry.
Target Audience: NP
ISBN:
1929766009
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C LITERATURE Poetry Narrative Tha | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry Narrative Tha | Main (Downtown) | Caldecott Shelf - Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry Narrative Tha | Main (Downtown) | Children's NonFiction | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry Narrative Tha | Main (Downtown) | Caldecott Shelf - Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry Narrative Tha | Main (Downtown) | Children's NonFiction | Out (Due: 6/20/2024) |
C LITERATURE Poetry Narrative Tha | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Children's | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry Narrative Tha | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Children's | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry Tha | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Children's | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry Narrative Tha | Northeast Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry Narrative Tha | Sandhills Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry Narrative Tha | St. Andrews Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
Randolph Caldecott Honor, 2001.