... ~ ~ '. ~ J ~ ' ~ I' / ~ .. \' ~ -. ~ ~ ~ - "' ~ ' ~ ~ / PRINTED FOR THE FRIENDS OF GRACE MAHON * CHRISTMAS 1954 CASEY AT THE BAT Written by Ernest L. Thayer and originally published in the San Francisco Examiner in the early Spring of 1888, "Casey at the Bat" made no instant hit. A few months later, however, and on the evening of August 14th in that year, young DeWolf Hopper recited it in Wallack's Thea ter in New York...
