Grantland Rice (1880 - 1954)

Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880 – July 13, 1954) was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio. The poem "Casey's Revenge" was actually credited to an author named James Wilson — a pseudonym Grantland Rice used before acknowledging the poem as his creation.