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Massachusetts team honors historic baseball poem, ‘Casey at the Bat’

HOLLISTON, Mass. — In a celebrated baseball poem, there is a fictitious place called ‘Mudville, but one Massachusetts town actually has a place called ‘Mudville’ and claims to be the inspiration for that famous baseball verse, “Casey at the Bat.”

Photojournalist Bob Goodale traveled to Holliston and found a special team keeping this bit of baseball lore alive.

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