“Today is the birthday of poet poetryfoundation.org/po…(amazon.com/gp/search?ke…), born in Lawrence, Massachusetts (1863). He was a bright and witty boy, born to a wealthy family that owned several prosperous woolen mills, and he never had to work much to support himself. He went to Harvard, where he studied philosophy with William James…”

And then he wrote Casey at the Bat.

WJ was not impressed by another student’s suggestion that our national pastime might be a good illustration of “the moral equivalent of war”… or maybe he just wasn’t consciously impressed. The connection seems clear enough to me. ⚾️