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[[Casey Stengel]] describes in his autobiography how his original nickname "K.C." (for his hometown, [[Kansas City, Missouri]]) evolved into "Casey". It was influenced not just by the name of the poem, which was widely popular in the 1910s, but also because he tended to strike out frequently in his early career so fans and writers started calling him "strikeout Casey".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stengel|first1=Casey|last2=Paxton|first2=Harry T.|title=Casey at the Bat: The Story of My Life in Baseball|date=1962|publisher=Random House|location=New York|page=11}}</ref>