A lifelong baseball enthusiast and New York Giants fan, he first performed Ernest Thayer's then-unknown poem Casey at the Bat to the Giants and Chicago Cubs the day his friend, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Tim Keefe had his record 19-game winning streak stopped, August 14, 1888.
Dennis Hopper | Edward Hopper | Andy Hopper | Grace Hopper | Andrew Hopper | Susan Hopper | Matt Hopper | Josephine Hopper | Hopper car | Hopper barge | DeWolf Hopper | covered hopper | William "Bill" Hopper | Tom Hopper | Stephen Hopper | Fran Hopper | Dennis Hopper's | Covered hopper |
Stars who have visited the theater or appeared on the stage include Al St. John, Buster Keaton, Pearl White, DeWolf Hopper, Helen Hayes, Lillian Russell, Ethel Barrymore and Abbott and Costello.
In the early twentieth century it was a summer retreat for an Actor's Colony which included Digby Bell, George Fawcett, Joseph Jefferson, Charles Penrose, Hassard Short, William H. Thompson and his wife Isabel Irving, DeWolf Hopper, Frank Gillmore and his daughters Ruth and Margalo Gillmore, among others.