Casey At The Bat (1916)

In the June 3, 1888 issue of The Examiner, Ernest Lawrence Thayer published the poem “Casey At The Bat” about an umpire who gets beat up by a batter after calling a strike call. In 1899, it became a 40 second Edison short. It has been remade many times over the years with the recitation of the poem, including 1899, 1913, 1916, 1922, 1927, 1946 as a Disney Cartoon, and 2005). In the 1916 version, DeWolf Hopper Sr. plays Casey.