Ernest Thayer

Ernest Lawrence Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey", 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."

14 August 1863

Born on the same birth day (14 August): Ander Herrera • Cupid Childs • Frank Brickowski • Greg Rawlinson • Hector Crawford • Jackée Harry • James Horner • Lina Wertmüller • Mstislav Dobuzhinsky • Peter Costello • Scott Lipsky • Slim Dunlap • Susan Saint James

Born in the same month (August 1863): Aleksey Krylov • Dragutin Lerman • Gene Stratton-Porter • Géza Gárdonyi • Jean Leon Gerome Ferris