June 3: DeWolf Hopper June 3, 2013 by gwmain Click image to expand June 3 “Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888,” a baseball poem by Ernest Thayer, was first published on this date in that year. It was popularized by DeWolf Hopper, who estimated he gave 10,000 dramatic performances of it.
