| 1 | * AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Leonard Koppett wrote a joke article that put forth that stanzas were removed that indicate that Casey [[ThrowingTheFight threw the game]], winking at his uncle before the critical pitch. His uncle had been taking bets. |
| 2 | * ItWasHisSled: Even people who have never read the poem know that "there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has struck out." Since the poem is more than a century old and one of the most popular baseball stories of all time, the ending where Casey blows it has become more well-known than anything else about it. |
| 3 | * MisaimedFandom: There are a lot of fan works out there that rewrite the ending of the poem to have Casey hit the ball, never mind that the structure of the poem is like a classical tragedy where Casey's FatalFlaw is choosing not to hit the first two pitches out of pride, bringing his strikeout on himself. One fan work, "[[https://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_case2.shtml Casey's Revenge]]" by legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice, toys with this as it has a similar ending, but it's framed as a sequel rather than an alternate ending to the original. Casey's climactic strikeout marks the start of a prolonged batting slump for him, whereas the pitcher who struck him out goes on a tear and becomes the talk of the league. When said pitcher's team returns to Mudville--with the pitcher, not the home team, as the marquee attraction--he and Casey find themselves in a similar situation to their earlier duel (last out of the game, multiple runners on base, Casey as the winning run, two strikes against him) but this time Casey comes through with a tape-measure home run. So Casey does get his run in the end, but only after learning his lesson, which one could argue is entirely appropriate to the poem's theme. |
| 4 | -->"But Mudville hearts are happy now, for ''Casey hit the ball''." |
| 5 | * UnintentionallySympathetic: The poem reads like a classical tragedy where Casey's FatalFlaw is overconfidence, as shown when he refuses to hit the first two pitches and thus brings the strikeout on himself. This doesn't stop certain fans from feeling sorry for him in the end. Especially in the Disney cartoon, where at the end he's alone in the field [[InelegantBlubbering crying]], and tries again and again to hit the ball, but seems to have completely lost his touch. Not for nothing did Disney come up with a sequel, ''WesternAnimation/CaseyBatsAgain'', wherein he redeems his reputation by running an all-female baseball team consisting of his own daughters. |
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