Published in 1910, ""Base-Ball Ballads"" was Grantland Rice's first book of poems. The book includes some of the best-known poems about baseball ever written, including ""Casey's Revenge"", ""Mudville's Fate,"" and the original version of ""Game Called"" (.

Published in 1910, Base-Ball Ballads was Grantland Rice's first book of poems, and the only one that contained baseball verse exclusively. The book includes some of the best-known poems about baseball ever written, including "Casey's Revenge" (a sometimes-anthologized piece that redeems Ernest Thayer's unlucky slugger), "Mudville's Fate," and the original version of "Game Called" (later revised on the occasion of Babe Ruth's death).