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A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888
The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;
The score stood four to two with but one inning more to play.
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
Ernest Lawrence Thayer's enduring poem about a baseball slugger who strikes out reminds us that even our heroes are human...all too human.
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