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Not long ago in this very space, we recognized the 125th anniversary of "Casey at the Bat," Ernest Thayer's classic baseball poem that first ran in San Francisco's Daily Examiner on June 3, 1888.

On this topic, it's worth noting that an enterprising soul at the Library of Congress recently unearthed the original as it first appeared on the pages of the Examiner. Here's a rather sprawling look at what's become a civic treasure in America:

You know why newspapers are dying? Because they no longer devote column inches to 575-word baseball poems. That's why.

(Wink of CBS eye: John Thorn)