It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read The Night Casey Was Born by John Evangelist Walsh
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The acclaimed biographer offers a social history of the poem that helped America fall in love with baseball—a lively story that “hits it out of the park” (The Baltimore Sun). The sport that came to be known as America’s Pastime was still in its infancy when a journalist for the San Francisco Examiner wrote a ballad extolling the drama and excitement of the game. Ernest L. Thayer’s Casey at the Bat made its first appearance in the Examiner on June 3, 1888. But the immortal tale of Mighty Casey was destined to become an American phenomenon when star of the New York stage DeWolf Hopper first...
The Night Casey Was Born by John Evangelist Walsh is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.
This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read The Night Casey Was Born aloud.
The Night Casey Was Born is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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