Unlike the mighty Casey, you can hit a home run with this worksheet that uses Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat” as a model of a narrative poem. Young fans must identify the characters, the time and place, the sequence of events in the poem, the problem that sets up the climax, and the lines of the poem that present the climax itself. Ask a brave player to sing this Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888.