Vocabulary from “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1888)

umpire

let drive

spheroid

batsman

straggle

doff

muffle

bat

hurtle

pitcher

writhe

unheeded

maddened

inning

whack

rumble

fraud

sneer

lulu

straggling

barrow

awed

dell

scornful

precede

visage

strike out

muffled

recoil

clenched

clench

stern

haughty

shattered

grandeur

defiance

shatter

awe

stricken

patron

sphere

strike

bench

melancholy

charity

gleam

eternal

ease

cruel

violence

despair

brilliant

cheer

strain

plate