Baseball

Both Alfred H. Spink's The National Game (1910) and A.G. Spalding's America's National Game (1911), generally regarded as the first attempts at writing a standard history of baseball, cite Casey at the Bat as the best baseball poem ever written. Spalding goes so far as to proclaim that �Love has its sonnets galore; War its epics in heroic verse; Tragedy its sombre story in measured line;