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William DeWolf Hopper (March 30, 1858 – September 23, 1935) was an American actor, singer, comedian, and theatrical producer. A star of vaudeville and musical theater, he became best known for performing the popular baseball poem "Casey at the Bat".
4. Sept. 2021 · DeWolf Hopper recites the poem, "Casey at the Bat" by E.L. Thayer. ...more.
Featuring a dramatic narrative about a baseball game, the poem was later popularized by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville performances. It has become one of the best-known poems in American literature.
In 1888, Hopper, a life-long baseball fanatic, one day suggested to the opera houses’ owners that they host, for one performance only, the home team New York Giants and the visiting Chicago White Stockings.
DeWolf Hopper Sr.. Actor: Don Quixote. Best-known for performing the most popular baseball poem, "Casey at the Bat." Filmed as one of the first talkies, 5 years before The Jazz Singer (1927), Casey at the Bat (1922), was included in Ken Burns' Baseball (1994). Hopper, a fervent New York Giant fan, first performed the then-unknown poem to the ...
22. Sept. 2008 · One of those actors was DeWolf Hopper, a well-known performer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who was given the role of William Penn in the production and also appeared in several scenes depicting ancient Rome.
27. Feb. 2016 · DeWolf Hopper, an accomplished thespian, read the melodramatic verse in packed theaters. Some members of the audience recited along with him. Others wept. “Casey’s” charms have endured. He is...
