Casey at the bat: A ballad of the Republic, sung in the year 1888 - Couverture souple

Ernest-lawrence-thayer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0590467336 ISBN 13 : 9780590467339

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

'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.

Détails de l'édition

• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0590467336
• ISBN 13: 9780590467339
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible