Casey at the Bat

But you know, as you say, we wanna make it fun.

One of the poems that we have the students memorize is "Casey at the Bat." You know? There's a little story of Casey at the bat.

Another one is "The Charge of the Light Brigade," and that's very rhythmic, you know, "Half a league, half a league, half a league onward," you know? And, uh, [laughs] ours is-

These-

These poems are not just things that teach us vocabulary and syntax and exercise our brain so that it knows how to do these things.

That, they're also connections to our past and to our history.

Like, where did those poems come from, and what do they mean, and what was happening culturally? Like, Casey at the bat is a very cultural thing, and you know, it's...

So you connect to...

[laughs] Yeah.

Do Casey at the Bat.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, I, Dooley, is that you?

Miss Brooks, tell me truthfully, have you ever heard anything so inspirational?

Not since Casey at the Bat.

[laughs]

Now, on my desk this morning was this piece of paper, and on it is a dastardly satire some ignorant buffoon made of those precious verses.

This, I can't believe I forgot this.

I believe he also wrote Casey at the Bat.

What's that?

You never heard Casey at the, that poem about baseball?

No.

It's like a book ab- Google Casey at the Bat.

Was it Mr. Soule? I think it, it was Mr.

Soule.

Miss Brooks, tell me truthfully, have you ever heard anything so inspirational? Not since

Casey at the Bat.

Now, on my desk this morning was this piece of paper, and on it is a dust of the satire, an ignorant buffoon made of those precious verses.

Go on and read it, Miss Brooks.

Miss Brooks, tell me truthfully, have you ever heard anything so inspirational? Not since

Casey at the Bat.

Now, on my desk this morning was this piece of paper, and on it is a dust of the satire, some ignorant buffoon made of those precious verses.

Go on and read it, Miss Brooks.

How can you tell when a party is either worried about a seat or giving up on a seat? We'll show you some of those.

And Larry O'Connor will recite Casey at the Bat from memory.

Larry, give us the opening line.

That's not going to happen.

Really? I don't know it by heart.

You don't know- I'm sorry.

You don't know- I don't know Casey at the Bat.

But I can tell you about my amazing day in New York yesterday with my- Please ... celebrity sightings and, uh- Please do.

Yeah

... was a kid, recorded off TV when they did the Casey At The Bat, then they did the stab through the hand.

Oh, yeah.

Was that their NPR special?

It could've been.

It was so long ago that it has not only had that VHS disappeared out of my life for so long, enough for me to forget it, but those two routines in particular, Casey At The Bat with a poem-

Mm

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