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Casey at the Bat
Airdate: Wednesday - April 24, 1963

WOR Show
Original Airing

(Redated from: 1964)

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(NOTE ABOUT TIME REFERENCES: Since there are many different copies of shows out there from different sources, all time references are from the beginning of one single recorded copy, since various copies, depending on when the recordee started recording, had news at the beginning or shortened themes. The times would vary from copy to copy.)

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Nobody knows the trouble I see. . .

Show Description

Shep opens up the show singing various courses from: "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" "Mommy's Little Baby Loves Shortening Bread" "Old Man River" ...and more Speaking of the Yankees and a game played against the Chicago White Sox earlier that day: "There is a feeling in the air". "I think this is going to be a desperate season" He then reads the story of "Casey at the Bat" by By Ernest Lawrence Thayer.��

Comments

• The Yankees went 70 - 89 in 1966 and finished in 10th place. Shep was right - it was a desperate season. The Original poem "Casey at the Bat" appeared in the San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888 and can be read here:� http://www..csh.rit.edu/~kenny/poetry/casey.html�

Commercials (All times approximate)

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Music (All times approximate)

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Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	Carl
•	Ed Scaterday

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	General Topics		Baseball

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

This Show

		Date	Title
		April 24, 1963	Casey at the Bat	Original Airing

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Show	Replay Date
Mass Backwards	October 24, 2000

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