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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...
...Thayer, the fame and controversy surrounding "Casey" proved to be such a problem that the Harvard grad often wished he hadn't written "Casey...
...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...
...bowing to popular demand, Thayer recited it at his 50th Harvard reunion...
...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...