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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.
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. (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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22. Sept. 2008 · DeWolf Hopper was a popular musical theater actor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He also became famous for reciting the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer over 10,000 times.
27. Feb. 2016 · DeWolf Hopper was a thespian who read Ernest Lawrence Thayer's poem "Casey at the Bat" in 1909, creating a baseball legend. Learn about his life, career and how he brought to life the tragic hero Casey, who struck out and broke Mudville's heart.
