The 15 April 1916 Motion Picture News, in an item date-lined Los Angeles, April 1, announced that De Wolf Hopper would film a motion picture version of the poem Casey at the Bat for Fine Arts, and that Willam E. Wing was presently writing a script.
       According to the 20 May 1916 Motion Picture News, "Lankershim, Cal., became Mudville last week when the exciting ball game for Casey at the Bat was filmed by Director Lloyd Ingraham. Two scrub baseball teams were organized, and there mighty Casey went to bat in the ninth inning and struck out." The production hired a former professional ball player to assist in the filming of the games, to assure authenticity. (The town of Lankershim was changed to North Hollywood in the late 1920s.) Interiors were filmed at the Fine Arts studios at 4500 Sunset Boulevard on the eastern edge of Hollywood. The 20 May 1916 Motography listed Loyola O'Connor as a performer in Casey at the Bat, but her participation is undetermined. Likewise, the 6 May 1916 Motion Picture News and 1 July 1916 Motography named Elmo Lincoln and Bert Hughes as cast members, but they were not listed. May Garcia's name was misspelled Girici.
       In that same issue of Motography, reviewer Oscar Cooper wrote that the writer and director "went to great trouble to provide sufficient material to justify the length of the picture, and perhaps also to bolster up Mr. Hopper's slight skill as a pantomimist. And they have succeeded in putting a lot of excellent small-town stuff on the screen, as well as working up the three baseball games in a really dramatic way. In fact, the best thing in the picture is the portrayal of small-town life, for which a lot of admirable types are gathered."
       De Wolf Hopper was known all over the world for his thousands of recitations of the poem "Casey at the Bat," the September 1916 Picture-Play Magazine noted. In fact, he was credited for making the poem famous. When the film premiered in New York City on the evening of 2 July 1916, professional baseball players attended the event, while Hopper, at a dinner at the Alexandria Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, recited Casey at the Bat over long-distance telephone, the 15 July 1916 Motion Picture News reported.
       In 1927, Famous Players-Lasky released a Paramount film based on the same source, directed by Monte Brice and starring Wallace Beery (see entry for information on other adaptations of the poem).
       The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included this film on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of February 2021.