Sir, yes sir: an interview with Casey Spooner of Fischerspooner Dallas Voice: The name of the band, Fischerspooner, combines your name with longtime collaborator Warren Fischer. You’ve co-written ...
Last week I noted my favorite baseball poem-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Baseball Canto” -- but today marks the 125th anniversary of baseball’s most famous poem, “Casey at the Bat.” It was on June 3, ...
20130529_me_20.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1055&aggIds=4499275&d=299&p=3&story=186913673&t=progseg&e=186916921&seg=20&ft=nprml&f=186913673 Frank Deford puts aside his gripes ...
The U.S. is celebrating its 241st birthday. That's a blink of an eye compared to other countries, but we've accomplished quite a bit in that short time, including the development of art forms unique ...
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play, And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same, A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game. Paste reader, these ...
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One hundred twenty-five years ago this week, a 56-line poem of light verse was inauspiciously published in the San Francisco Examiner. It told the story of a haughty slugger for the fictional Mudville ...
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same, A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game. A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest Clung to that hope which ...
Frank Deford puts aside his gripes this week to pay tribute to the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, first published in the San Francisco Examiner 125 years ago June 3. The Outlook wasn't brilliant for ...
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