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On June 3, Major League Baseball will celebrate the 119th anniversary of "Casey at Bat." After nearly 120 years, Casey still rocks. When Ernest L. Thayer wrote the baseball ballad in May of 1888, which later published in the San Francisco Examiner on June 3 of that same year, it didn't become a literary classic right away. The help of local playhouses, a Hollywood movie in 1927 and even a Walt Disney cartoon helped make the poem a Hall of Fame entry. So just who was the mighty Casey? And what about the Mudville Nine? Thayer never disclosed what team or city served as the model for the Mudville Nine. But two cities lay claim to be the basis of Thayer's poem -- Stockton, Calif., and Holliston, Mass. The debate goes on and will likely never be answered. As for whether or not Casey was based on a single player or a combination of players during the 80s, Thayer mentioned a Bostonian slugger named Mike 'King" Kelly as a model for the ballad. According to...
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