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Many besides Thayer called the poem their brainchild. The most persistent claim was that of George Whitefield D'Vys. Although his story changed in a few times, one version had D'Yys writing the verse in Cambridge Common with his mother. As he finished the poem, a runway horse forced them to leave. D'Yys returned to find his poem stolen...
Even though many writers declared the mystery about the author settled, D'Vys swore he wrote "Casey" all the way to his grave. In fact, he once accused Thayer of stealing his poem form the Cambridge Common...
...letter to Burton Egbert Stevenson, Thayer wrote that the poem's "persistent vogue is simply unaccountable, and it would be hard to say, all things considered, if it has given me more pleasure than annoyance...
...poem itself was so well-known that many baseball players attempted to put their names in history by declaring themselves Thayer's "Casey." Thayer confessed, though, that he based the the character on a high school classmate by that name...
Cities have also sought recognition as the official "Mudville" where the infamous ball game was played. Stockton, Calif., held reenactments of the poem throughout the fifties and sixties. In one of these restagings, the "Casey" was masked and the audience member who guessed who was under the mask won a prize...