Base-Ball Ballads (The McFarland Historical Baseball Library, 7)

Published in 1910, Base-Ball Ballads was Grantland Rice's first book of poems, and the only one that contained baseball verse exclusively. The book includes some of America's best-known poems about baseball, including "Casey's Revenge" (which redeems Ernest Thayer's unlucky slugger), "Mudville's Fate," and the original version of "Game Called" (later revised on the occasion of Babe Ruth's death).