The epic hero

Epic heroes and sport heroes both make people that support them happy, because they fulfilled their dreams. Also, both of them are very proud of themselves for being able to do things that many other people aren't able to. They are different in ways that sport heroes won't die even if they lost the game, unless people get too emotional and kill them, but epic heroes may die when they lose their battle. Beowulf does meet the requirements of being a epic hero, because he killed many monsters, which obviously would be many people's dream to have the monsters killed. And, those people are of course really happy. He also is very proud of himself, we can see that from the part where he went to the king and persuaded the king to let him go kill the monster without any weapons or men. Casey sort of meets the requirements. He is proud of himself, since when people were shouting to kill the umpire, he just raised his hand. It shows that he thinks that he's like the pope in a church, and is self-satisfied. But, although he is proud, he didn't meet the requirement to make people happy and fulfill their dreams. He got stroke out when people expected him to hit a homerun.