![]() ![]() ![]() Its popularity soared when DeWolf Hopper dramatically recited the poem on August 14, 1888, in front of an audience that included many baseball players from the New York Giants and the Chicago White Stockings. It was published on June 3, 1888, but it made no big impression on the public. Thayer is famous for the poem, "Casey at the Bat" about a player on a fictional baseball team who struck out, losing a very important game for his team. ![]() It was there that he became a humor columnist who wrote under the pen name "Phin." William Randolph Hearst, a friend from college, invited Thayer to join the editorial staff of the San Francisco Examiner. While there, he studied philosophy and was the editor of Harvard's humor magazine, Lampoon. In 1881 he enrolled in Harvard University, following in the footsteps of other generations of Thayer's. Because his family's wealth, Thayer was educated privately. Ernest Lawrence Thayer was born on Augin Lawrence, Massachusetts. ![]()
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