NDLI: Striking Out: The Case of Mighty Casey

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Capps, Donald
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	In Striking Out (Capps 2011a), I explored two meanings of the phrase “striking out.” One means to begin, advance, or proceed, especially in a new way or direction. The other, associated with baseball, means an out by a batter charged with three strikes. The book focused more on the first than the second meaning. In this article I take up the second meaning by considering the mythical case of “mighty Casey,” whose strike out is portrayed in Ernest Thayer’s poem Casey at the Bat (Thayer 1888). I suggest that at the time Thayer wrote the poem he identified personally with Casey’s failure. I also use my proposal in Agents of Hope (Capps 2001) that failed hopes may engender a spirit of modesty to interpret the change in Casey’s own self-understanding as presented in certain sequels to the original poem written by other authors. In addition, I imagine a scenario in which a local pastor, in his role of agent of hope, helps Casey deal with his despair and accompanying depression in the wake of his failure and to recover his capacity to hope. I conclude that Ernest Thayer’s life also reflected a spirit of modesty.
Starting Page	167
Ending Page	195
Page Count	29
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00312789
Journal	Pastoral Psychology
Volume Number	65
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15736679
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2015-08-30
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Ernest Thayer Mighty Casey Striking out Failure Hope Modesty Despair Depression Trust Clinical Psychology Religious Studies Cross Cultural Psychology Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Religious Studies Social Psychology Applied Psychology

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