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Author : Ernest L. Thayer
Release : 1888
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Casey at the Bat by : Ernest L. Thayer
Download or read book Casey at the Bat written by Ernest L. Thayer. This book was released on 1888. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caldecott Honor Book : 2001.
Author : Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Release : 1988
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 780/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Casey at the Bat by : Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Download or read book Casey at the Bat written by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative poem about a celebrated baseball player who strikes out at the crucial moment of a game.
Author : Jim Moore
Release : 2011-11-30
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 112/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat" by : Jim Moore
Download or read book Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat" written by Jim Moore. This book was released on 2011-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat" was first published in the San Francisco Daily Examiner on June 3, 1888. Its popularity owed much to the universality of its subject; every city seemed to have a "Casey" on its team. Thayer, a Harvard graduate, said little about the real Casey, though he did leave a few clues. "The verses owe their existence," he wrote in 1930, "to my enthusiasm for college baseball...and to my association with Will Hearst." Thayer's background is examined here as the basis for determining the origins of the colorfast cast of characters behind his "Ballad of the Republic"--men who may have been "Casey," "Flynn," "Cooney" and other members of the Mudville Nine.
Author : Martín Espada
Release : 2012-09-04
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 541/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Trouble Ball: Poems by : Martín Espada
Download or read book The Trouble Ball: Poems written by Martín Espada. This book was released on 2012-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] important work . . . inspiring its readers to greater human connection and to keep fighting the good fight.”—The Rumpus In this new collection of poems, Martín Espada crosses the borderlands of epiphany and blasphemy: from a pilgrimage to the tomb of Frederick Douglass to an encounter with the swimming pool at a center of torture and execution in Chile, from the adolescent discovery of poet Omar Khayyám to the death of an "illegal" Mexican immigrant. from "The Trouble Ball" On my father's island, there were hurricanes and tuberculosis, dissidents in jail and baseball. The loudspeakers boomed: Satchel Paige pitching for the Brujos of Guayama. From the Negro Leagues he brought the gifts of Baltasar the King; from a bench on the plaza he told the secrets of a thousand pitches: The Trouble Ball, The Triple Curve, The Bat Dodger, The Midnight Creeper, The Slow Gin Fizz, The Thoughtful Stuff. Pancho Coímbre hit rainmakers for the Leones of Ponce; Satchel sat the outfielders in the grass to play poker, windmilled three pitches to the plate, and Pancho spun around three times. He couldn't hit The Trouble Ball.
Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Release : 1993
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 718/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Children's Hour by : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Download or read book The Children's Hour written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all of Longfellow's beloved poems (and there are many) none is so personal, so sunny, or so touching as this affectionate love letter to his three daughters, "grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with the golden hair." Longfellow's happiest hours were spent writing on a cluttered desk by the south window of his beloved Craigie House, an imposing mansion still preserved on Cambridge's famous Brattle Street. It was here that most of the action takes place (except for his literary reference, and brief excursion, to the "Mouse-Tower on the Rhine"), here that his daughters come creeping down the stairs to beard the gentle, genial poet in his lair. Lang's luminous illustrations perfectly capture the happy atmosphere of that house, the author's affections for his daughters, and the painterly quality of his verse. This book for young readers presents one of the sweetest poems in the English language, her newly illustrated, beautifully presented, and now available to a new generation of readers.
