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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".
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.. 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 ...
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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.
— 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."
