Sentence examples for casey at a from inspiring English sources

"Rotherham council put its reputation above all else, so it swept that hard stuff under the carpet," said Casey at a conference in Leeds called Coming Out of the Darkness, organised by Adele Gladman, whose 2002 report for the Home Office into child abuse in the town was suppressed.

However, I did find it troubling that soon after the story ran, I saw Casey at a Soho restaurant.

"She's tough as nails," said Tim Clark, Trump's California director, as he introduced Casey at a Saturday night reception for the delegation.

People who agree with all this might still enjoy a new edition of Ernest L. Thayer's CASEY AT THE BAT: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 (Handprint/Chronicle, $17.95; ages 9 to 12), splendidly illustrated by Christopher Bing.

(Ages 4 to 8) 9 4 CASEY AT THE BAT, by Ernest L. Thayer.

Still, there is that best-known of baseball poems, "Casey at the Bat" (full name: "Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888"), a folksy ramble that contains unexpected depth as it follows the arc of the baseball calendar, and of the seasons themselves, from the optimism of spring, to the failures of fall.

Other Caldecott Honor Books were "Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888," by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, illustrated by Christoper Bing (Handprint Books) and "Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type," by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin Simonn & Schuster).

Bing, whose version of "Casey at the Bat" was a 2001 Caldecott Honor Book, has not simply illustrated the enduringly popular Longfellow poem; he has animated it with striking, elaborately detailed images and has given it context with re-creations of key documents and a page of historical "miscellany" reproduced to look like a newspaper of the time.

It's the only sport with a popular poem -- "Casey at the Bat" -- which turned into a popular film and an opera.

The 1990s saw wide-ranging performances such as the Russian opera Prince Igor, a narration of Casey at the Bat by Jack Brickhouse with orchestral accompaniment, six Chicago Bulls National Basketball Association championship celebrations and a celebrated return visit of Van Cliburn for the sixtieth season.

Berri and Fort dismiss that as a myth of Casey at the Bat proportions.