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Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (born 1863)

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Ernest Thayer

American writer and poet (1863–1940)

Ernest Lawrence Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey", which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, and "the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native legend as colorful…
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