Ernest Thayer
Writer, Author
1863 – 1940
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Who was Ernest Thayer?
Ernest Lawrence Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote "Casey at the Bat," "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 and permanent as that of Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan."
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- Born
- Aug 14, 1863
Lawrence - Also known as
- Ernest L. Thayer
- Spouses
- Rosalind Hammett
(1913/09/09 - 1940/08/21)
- Rosalind Hammett
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Employment
- Harvard Lampoon, Inc
- Died
- Aug 21, 1940
Santa Barbara
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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