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Mighty Casey was real but never played baseball
Cooperstown reports a long tale that Mighty Casey was a real person who never played baseball. The piece traces the poem Casey at the Bat to Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Daniel M Casey, and De Wolf Hopper, revealing that Thayer sole author of the verse and Casey a Worcester high school figure who never wore a baseball uniform.
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Casey
Cooperstown
Nly
Baseball Hall of Fame
Mudville
Yesteryear
America
de Wolf Hopper
América
Pala Grounds
New York Giants
Hopper
Phin
San Francisco Examiner
Danny Casey
Daniel M. Casey
Giants
Philadelphia Phillies
Old Worcester
Massachusetts
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Thayer
Daniel Henry Casey
Worcester High School
Worcester
Harvard University
Harvard Lampoon
The
Examiner
San Francisco
West Coast
North America
Harvard
Ernest L. Thayer