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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".
118. 6.5K views 2 years ago. DeWolf Hopper recites the poem, "Casey at the Bat" by E.L. Thayer. ...more.
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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).
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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.
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.
22 de set. de 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 de fev. de 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.
