Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863 - 1940) was a US writer and poet. Thayer's last piece for the Examiner, dated June 3, 1888, was a ballad entitled "Casey" ("Casey at the Bat") which made him "a prize specimen of the one-poem poet" according to American Heritage.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Oh! Somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright;

The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;
And somewhere men are laughing and somewhere children shout,
But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has struck out.
- Casey at the Bat

George Santayana