{"product_id":"casey-at-the-bat-isbn-9781929766000","title":"Casey at the Bat","description":"\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 Thayer's poem has taken a well-deserved place as an enduring icon of Americana. Christopher Bing's 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 l'oeil 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","brand":"Chronicle Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44897321124069,"sku":"NP9781929766000","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/casey-at-the-bat-isbn-9781929766000","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}