Book
Casey at the Bat
- Published
- 1888
- Genre
- Poetry
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Pages
- 32
- Words
- 551
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/313784.Casey_at_the_Bat?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 5.3
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile code
- NP — non-prose
- Suggested reading age
- ages 8–10
"And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out." Those lines have echoed through the decades, the final stanza of a poem published pseudonymously in the June 3, 1888, issue of the San Francisco Examiner. Its author would rather have seen it forgotten. Instead, Ernest Thayer's poem has taken a well-deserved place as an enduring icon of Americana. Christopher Bing's magnificent version of this immortal ballad of the flailing 19th-century baseball star is rendered as though it had been newly discovered in a hundred-year-old scrapbook. Bing seamlessly weaves real and trompe l'oeil reproductions of artifacts-period baseball cards, tickets, advertisements, and a host of other memorabilia into the narrative to present a rich and multifaceted panorama of a bygone era. A book to be pored over by children, treasured by aficionados of the sport-and given as a gift to all ages: a tragi-comic celebration of heroism and of a golden era of sport. (less)
Collections
TJEd Early Recommended
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780060090685
- ISBN-10
- 0060090685
Tags
Arts-DrawingAward Winners-ALA Notable/Best BooksAward Winners-BCCB Blue Ribbon BookAward Winners-Caldecott HonorAward Winners-Governor General's Literary AwardCommon Core State Standards Appendix B Titles-CCSS Grade Band 4-5Poetry/RhymesRecommended Reading-California Recommended Lit., English, 3-5Recommended Reading-California Recommended Lit., English, 6-8Recommended Reading-IRA-Young Adults' ChoiceSports/Recreation-BaseballThomas Jefferson Education Early