June 3 marks the 125th anniversary of the publication of baseball's most famous poem, Casey at the Bat, written by Ernest Lawrence Thayer and published on June 3, 1888 in the San Francisco Examiner. Read it and other baseball poems at the Poetry Foundation's website at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/244646. Check out books about baseball and poetry at your Shaker Library. We're sure you'll find a book that makes a big hit with you and your family.
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