# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernest-thayer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:00:02.840Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernest-thayer"
name: "Ernest Thayer"
slug: "ernest-thayer"
description: "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 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\"."
tagline: "American author and poet (1863–1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ernest_Thayer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1863-08-14"
deathDate: "1940-08-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.159109333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/27bc66c0-e980-4f47-a648-f60bd94b7e46"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "إرنست ثاير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ارنست ثاير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Thayer"
    title: "Ernest Thayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Thayer"
    title: "Ernest Thayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Thayer"
    title: "Ernest Thayer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Thayer"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q288369"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump