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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. “Casey at the Bat” is a baseball ballad that has sustained its fame since shortly after appearing as filler in the San Francisco Examiner in June 1888.
Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s poem’s concluding stanza laments “But there is no joy in Mudville – mighty Casey has struck out.”
Del Leonard Jones
The ballad portrays a fictional heroic Casey making the final out. His team, the Mudville Nine, loses the game it was favored to win. In his lively, imaginative historical novel “At the Bat: The Strikeout That Shamed America” Del Leonard Jones, a former Albuquerque resident, has Casey as one of a slew of fleshed out characters; most aren’t in the ballad.
Feb 5, 2021
STEUBENVILLE Quinn Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church, 515 North St., Steubenville, is observing Black History Month every Sunday in February.
“Our theme for Black History Month will be ‘Gearing Up to Move Forward, ” explained Terry L. Jennings, committee member.
“On the first and second Sunday, (Feb. 7 and Feb. 14) we will celebrate our spiritual heritage by remembering Richard Allen, the founder and first elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church,” she noted.
Speakers will be local businessman Jonathan Littlejohn, Little Snack Shack; Jacqueline Gibson of Quinn; Karla Martin, senior vice president of Diversity, Aspire and Workforce of Eastern Gateway Community College; and Brenda Ware, owner and operator of Miss Brenda’s Restaurant in the Trinity Medical Pavilion.