DATE:
2 May, 1908
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game," by Albert vonTilzer and Jack Norworth, is registered for copyright on this day. The song about a girl who'd rather go to a ballgame than a show gets more play that summer in theaters - illustrated by glass lantern slides (high tech) - than in ballparks. However, when the fall Cubs / Giants pennant race gave the nation baseball fever, three recordings of the song hit the top ten. Now a staple of the seventh-inning stretch, "Ball Game" will be the FIRST SONG featured on a postage stame - planned for release June 2008.
- Smithsonian, May 2008
2 comments:
One of baseball's finest moments. The rest of the song is hilarious..
There is no useless history.
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