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by Nikki Giovanni

Baseball Almanac: "Casey at the Bat"
Giovanni believes that every sport should have a national poem. The only sport that does is baseball, which is celebrated in Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s poem "Casey at the Bat." Read the complete text of the poem at this site. In the Web Links Activity Log, reflect on how a sports poem becomes adopted as a national favorite.

 


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