Take Me Out to the Ball Game
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"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is a 1908 waltz song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of North American baseball, although neither of its authors had attend
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Seventh-inning stretch
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In baseball in the United States and Canada, the seventh-inning stretch is a long-standing tradition that takes place between the halves of the seventh inning of a game. Fans generally stand up and st
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
…American baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game before writing the song. The song's chorus is traditionally sung as part of the seventh-inning stretch of a baseball game. Fans are generally encouraged to sing along, and at many ballparks, the words "home team" are replaced with the team name. "Take…
Mascots Ace and Junior and fans at a Toronto Blue Jays home game during a seventh-inning stretch
Harry Wright, first to report the seventh-inning stretch in 1869—in the second inning
William Howard Taft, first U.S. president to observe the seventh-inning stretch in 1910
Jack Norworth (1879–1959) (left), lyricist of the 1908 song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game". It was first sung by Norworth's then-wife, Nora Bayes (right), c. 1910.