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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.
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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.
DeWolf Hopper Sr. (1858-1935) was an American actor who performed the popular baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" for almost 40 years. He also appeared in films such as Don Quixote (1915) and Intolerance (1916), and had six marriages and a son, William Hopper.
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- New York City, New York, USA
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- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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.
— Profiling that larger-than-life American actor, singer, comedian, and theatrical producer, DeWolf Hopper (1858 - 1935). His insatiable appetite for young actresses may have been the reason for his nickname "Wolfie," while his many marriages earned him the title "Husband of His Country."
…stage performances of comic actor DeWolf Hopper, who recited the poem more than 10,000 times in hundreds of American cities and towns. “Casey at the Bat” became baseball’s most popular piece of literature, celebrated in opera, paintings, sculpture, and film and imitated, extended, and even parodied by writers ranging from…
