In 1888, The Examiner immortalized the emotional roller coaster of baseball through Earnest Lawrence Thayer’s poem. We swelter in the stands while our hero, Casey Jones eyes three pitches only to fail to crack his bat on any of them.  Casey discounts the first two balls as unworthy of his time.  And with the third, the fury of the swing does not meet its target. Casey strikes out. Sometimes our kitchen heroes make us feel like that day in Mudville. […]

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