Leroy Neiwman Casey at the Bat

"Casey at the Bat" is a poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. A dramatic narrative about a baseball game. The poem became popular on the vaudeville circuit, and has become one of the best-known poems in American literature. In 2001, renown artist Leroy Neiman, known for his brilliantly colored, expressionist paintings of athletes, musicians, and sporting events, rendered a series of charcoal and wash sketches that created a new iconography of Ernest L. Thayer classic 1888 poem, “Casey at the Bat.”

Neiman drew upon the countless hours he’d spent in ballparks across America studying the titans of swat – Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Reggie Jackson, Jose Canseco – and their powerful wrists and rippling forearms. Casey at the Bat was published in a hand-signed limited edition, bound in cowhide, the same materials as a baseball itself, and in a cloth bound edition. Both feature an Introduction by Joe Torre, at the time the manager of the New York Yankees, who had many times witnessed the sunken silence of ballparks after a local hero proved his mortality.

The book with 96 pages, and 38 Illustrations, was published by HarperCollins in 2002. Hand-signed limited edition or trade hardcover. The introduction was written by New York Yankee manager Joe Torre, who is quoted on the back cover: "The emotion that comes from competition is what sports is all about. The highs and lows, the booing and the cheering, the elation and the frustration. Leroy Neiman captures it all."

"Casey At The Bat" Drawings By LeRoy Neiman


Title Page (autographed copy)	Back Cover


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