Take Me Out to the Ball Game
The Story of the Sensational Baseball Song
- Author: McGuiggan, Amy Whorf
Take Me Out to the Ball Game: The Story of the Sensational Baseball Song is just a great story about how something so commonplace-singing during the seventh inning stretch-began as such an unlikely... — More…
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Contents
- Foreword by Mike Veeck
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Up with the Curtain; On with the Show
- 1. The Early Years: A Brief History of Baseball
- 2. The New Century
- 3. Ladies and Gentlemen, Please Take Your Seats
- 4. 1908: The Year of the Song
- 5. Baseball and Music
- 6. Take Me Out to the Ball Game: The Sensational Baseball Song
- 7. Let Me Hear You Good and Loud . . . A-one, A-two, A-three
- 8. Baseball as Vaudeville
- 9. Exit Smiling
- Bibliographic Essay