Any time you're facing big failure is a good time to revisit the 1888 poem "Casey at the Bat." It's the classic story of dashed optimism, of an entire city putting its hopes on the result of one ...

Any time you're facing big failure is a good time to revisit the 1888 poem "Casey at the Bat." It's the classic story of dashed optimism, of an entire city putting its hopes on the result of one ...

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Any time you're facing big failure is a good time to revisit the 1888 poem "Casey at the Bat." It's the classic story of dashed optimism, of an entire city putting its hopes on the result of one ...

This week will long be woefully remembered by many Brazilian soccer fans as one of shame, with the five-time World Cup winner’s hopes of victory being dashed in a game against the Netherlands, which ...

The Russian poet Nikolai Gumilyov was so desperate to marry his teenage sweetheart Anna Akhmatova that when she kept refusing him, he attempted suicide — three times. Eventually, after years of his ...