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, ...

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 ...

Arrow star Stephen Amell has been spending his summer as Casey Jones in the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2. But the other thing he seems focused on is a campaign to get Toronto Blue Jays ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Based on the literary efforts of my email group, poetry is making a comeback. You can thank Rick for the latest poetic contribution. He knew the baseball’s fate. Back Door Tavern in west Knoxville ...

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 ...

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