Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Which famous poem tells a story of the Mudville nine?"
The term ‘Mudville nine’ originates from the poem, “Casey at the Bat” which was written by the well-known poet, Ernest Thayer in 1888. Mudville is the name of the fictional hometown and home team in the poem. "Casey at the Bat" is “the single most famous baseball poem ever written” according to the Baseball Almanac. It was first published in The San Francisco Examiner (then called The Daily Examiner), and later popularized by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville performances. It has become one of the best-known poems in American literature.