Songs Written by Ernest ThayerTop Songs / Chart Singles Discography

Ernest Lawrence Thayer (; August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey" (or "Casey at the Bat"), which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, and "the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native legend as colorful and permanent as that of Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan". == Biography == Thayer was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and raised in... [more on Wikipedia]

As a songwriter, Ernest Thayer first charted in 1906 with Casey at the Bat.The artist placed 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100, one of which reached the Top‑10.