It’s been 136 years since “Casey at the Bat,” one of the most famous poems in American literature, was first published. And in all of that time, the concluding line of Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s ballad ...
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The story of how Ernest Thayer’s verses first ended up in the Sun, in 1888, is a curious one.