Casey At the Bat A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 (Caldecott Honor Book) by Ernest L. Thayer - October 1, 2000

Brooklyn: Handprint, October 1, 2000. New/New. And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out" Those lines have echoed through the decades, the final stanza of a poem published pseudonymously in the June 3, 1888, issue of the San Francisco Examiner Its author would rather have seen it forgotten Instead, Ernest Thayer's poem has taken a well-deserved place as an enduring icon of Americana Christopher Bing's magnificent version of this immortal ballad of the flailing 19th-century baseball star is rendered as though it had been newly discovered in a hundred-year-old scrapbook Bing seamlessly weaves real and trompe l'oeil reproductions of artifacts-period baseball cards, tickets, advertisements, and a host of other memorabilia into the narrative to present a rich and multifaceted panorama of a bygone era A book to be pored over by children, treasured by aficionados of the sport-and given as a gift to all ages: a tragi-comic celebration of heroism and of a golden era of sport