Casey at the Bat 1908
This being Opening Day for the World Series, above we have a comic strip adaptation of author Ernest Thayer‘s famous 1888 poem, “Casey at the Bat”, as illustrated in the September 19th, 1908 edition of the Chicago Examiner by cartoonist Thomas A. Dorgan (“Tad”).
A dramatized reading of “Casey at the Bat” was part of the Vaudeville line-up at Chicago’s Lyceum Theatre during 1908, whose headliner was blackface minstrel singer Lew Dockstader (whom the advertising flyer above, was attributed to).
baseball Tad Dorgan
— Doug
