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The "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" songwriters had never seen a baseball game. |
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| The idea for the song came to Norworth not while he was sitting in the stands, but instead, of all places, on the New York City subway. According to legend, he was taking a trip across town in spring 1908 when he saw a subway advertisement for a New York Giants home game at Polo Grounds stadium in upper Manhattan. Inspiration struck the songwriter, and he quickly jotted some words on a scrap of paper. Von Tilzer completed the music shortly after, and on May 2, 1908, the pair registered the song with the U.S. Copyright Office. On the same day, an ad for the sheet music appeared in the entertainment trade paper the New York Clipper, and before the year was out, it was the No. 1 song on the pop charts. In 1940, Norworth finally attended a Brooklyn Dodgers game at Ebbets Field, where he was honored for his contributions to baseball. He claimed it was his first baseball game. | |
| Despite its early success on the charts, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" doesn't appear to have been played or performed at a Major League Game until the 1934 World Series. It was much more recently still, in 1971, when Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck caught legendary announcer Harry Caray singing the song to the entire stadium (possibly not realizing the public microphone was on nearby) that it became the essential singalong tradition that it remains today. | |
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"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" has a feminist twist. | |||||||||
| Although the chorus of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is the best-known part of the song, the lyrics of the verses introduce protagonist Katie Casey, a young woman who is "baseball mad" and would rather be taken to a ballpark than be wined and dined by suitors. In 2013, George Boziwick of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts deduced that this outspoken, progressive character — a departure from the social norms of the time — was actually inspired by actress and suffragist Trixie Friganza. Lyricist Jack Norworth, then married to actress Louise Dresser, was believed to be having a short-lived affair with Friganza at the time; historians have also pointed out that an original edition of the sheet music featured Friganza's picture. | |||||||||
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