The Man Behind "Casey at the Bat"
A little tribute today to a distant cousin of mine, Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863-1940), best known for his comic 1888 poem “Casey at the Bat”. Thayer was the son of a wealthy wool manufacturer in Worcester, Massachuetts. (My 8th grandmother Grace Thayer was one of these Worcester Thayers. It’s a family with American roots going […]