Word: casey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only wives but even the most seasoned baseballers in the audience wondered who Casey was. Harvardman (1885) Ernest L. Thayer, who had written the poem for the paper his friend Willie Hearst had recently acquired, declared that no real-life Casey existed. But baseball fans down the decades have had to invent not one but many. Up Boston way, they were sure Casey was King Kelly, the Babe Ruth of the '80s, whom the Boston National League club had bought for the unheard of price of $10,000 from the White Stockings in 1887. Almost every community...
...Wolf Hopper died three years ago and it was about that time that a wizened little septuagenarian from Silver Springs, Md. walked into a Washington newspaper office and presented himself as the original Casey. Dan Casey had been saying it for 50 years in his native Binghamton, N. Y., where he had worked as a trolley-car conductor since retiring from baseball, but no one had paid much attention. In Washington, however, it was different...
Baseball bigwigs, eager to round up all forgotten heroes for next year's centennial, decided that Dan Casey had valid claim to baseball immortality. This spring Oldster Casey, now 76, was rewarded with a lifetime pass to all ball parks, was introduced to the U. S. public on a radio program. Last week, the Baltimore Orioles, whose feats have been almost as integral a part of baseball folklore as Casey's, invited the latest Maryland celebrity to stage a revival of Casey-at-the-bat as a prologue to a night game with the Jersey City Giants...
Sticking to the script, Dan Casey found the first two strikes not his style. Then he took liberties with the original version. Mighty Casey, his blue eyes blazing, smacked the ball into the infield...
...used to these lights if you're going to hit," said Casey, explaining his two strikes. "But I'll admit Hornsby didn't have as much on the ball as Tim Keefe did that time...