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Lupton Baseball Stadium America’s Favorite
Baseball Song
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Its spring and Baseball returns for another season. It’s a sport built
The lyric on tradition and evokes more nostalgia among Americans - Baseball
“Buy me some is America’s favorite pastime. Nothing beats sitting in your favorite
peanuts and Cracker ball park, watching your favorite team, with a hotdog and singing the
Jacks” increased game’s popular song, which has been said to be the game’s anthem,
sales of the crunchy Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
popcorn treat, which
were an instant hit when introduced at The grand-slam of all baseball songs, Take Me Out to the Ball Game
the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair has become the unofficial anthem of America’s national pastime.
It has been ranked in survey polls as one of the top ten songs of
the twentieth century and is second only to “Happy Birthday” and
“The Star Spangled Banner” as the most easily recognized songs in
America.

According to the Library of Congress, on May 2, 1908, the United
States Copyright Office received two copies of the song. The sheet
music was submitted for copyright by composer Albert Von Tilzer
(1878-1856) and lyricist Jack Norworth (1879-1959) – two men
who had never been to a baseball game. Norworth claimed that
his inspiration for Take Me Out to the Ball Game came from an
advertisement for an upcoming baseball game that he saw on a New
York subway train that read” “Baseball Today – Polo Grounds.”

Every summer, in ball parks across the country, a familiar refrain is
heard during the seventh inning of every game:

Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don’t care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don’t win it’s a shame
For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out,

At the old ball game.

Not many fans are aware that Take Me out to the Ball Game is really
romantic in nature, about a baseball-loving girl, Katie Casey who
asked her beau to take her to a baseball game rather than a show.

As a baseball fan, the next time you are in Lupton Baseball Stadium
watching your Purple and White Frogs, or at another of your favorite
ball parks and when it’s the seventh inning, stand up, sing and have
fun!

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