Ernest Thayer
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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 bes
Ernest Thayer
Illustration of "Casey at Bat"
Johnny Appleseed
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John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and the Canadian
Ernest Thayer
…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". Thayer was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and raised in nearby Worcester. He graduated magna cum laude in philosophy from Harvard…
Johnny Appleseed Birthplace site in Leominster, Massachusetts
Monument to John Chapman in South Park, Mansfield, Ohio
Disputed possible gravesite of Johnny Appleseed
A variety called the "Johnny Appleseed" is similar to these Albemarle Pippins, good for baking and apple sauce.