{"product_id":"casey-at-the-bat-a-ballad-of-the-republic-sung-in-the-year-1888-caldecott-honor-book-9781929766000","title":"Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 (Caldecott Honor Book)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCasey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 (Caldecott Honor Book)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Thayer, Ernest L.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781929766000.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out.\" Those lines have echoed through the decades, the final stanza of a poem published pseudonymously in the June 3, 1888, issue of the San Francisco Examiner. Its author would rather have seen it forgotten. Instead, Ernest Thayers poem has taken a well-deserved place as an enduring icon of Americana. Christopher Bings magnificent version of this immortal ballad of the flailing 19th-century baseball star is rendered as though it had been newly discovered in a hundred-year-old scrapbook. Bing seamlessly weaves real and trompe loeil reproductions of artifacts-period baseball cards, tickets, advertisements, and a host of other memorabilia into the narrative to present a rich and multifaceted panorama of a bygone era. A book to be pored over by children, treasured by aficionados of the sport-and given as a gift to all ages: a tragi-comic celebration of heroism and of a golden era of sport.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Chronicle Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45254422495285,"sku":"ByrdShop_1929766009","price":27.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781929766000_0ed30276-57ee-4bda-84dd-85955155d4bd.jpg?v=1779959351","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/casey-at-the-bat-a-ballad-of-the-republic-sung-in-the-year-1888-caldecott-honor-book-9781929766000","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}