Earnest Lawrence Thayer's 'Casey At The Bat'

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Earnest Lawrence Thayer, author of "Casey at the bat" uses humor to describe Casey's experiences. Earnest Thayer uses humor by making Casey strike out. One example of it being humorous is when the author made Casey strike out, but everyone thought he was gonna hit the baseball. Another example is the way he goes into detail and describes everything. The author uses humor also when Casey went up to bat and everyone cheered thinking Casey was gonna step up and make them win, or at least get a point or two on the board. When the author wrote "Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt;" also can be found as humorous in some points of view. "Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty well; It rumbled through