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What helped to make the
poem "Casey at the Bat"
famous?

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"It was titled "Casey at the Bat," and nearly 130 years after its publication, it remains the definitive poem about our national pastime. Thayer's verse was part of a movement by Hearst to utilize populist poetry as a way of gaining readership; it was targeted at a wide audience"

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