Jack Norworth never cared much for baseball, but he wrote a song about the game that sports fans have been belting out for one hundred years.
Norworth was a vaudeville entertainer, best known for his spirited hoofing and blackface routines. He also dabbled in songwriting. The story goes that in summer 1908, he was riding the [...]
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Take Me Out To The Ball Game
May 22, 2010 – 8:02 am
Van Lingle Mungo
March 13, 2010 – 3:45 pm
I love this song by Dave Frishberg, in which he strings together the names of old-time baseball players. Even if you don’t know who the players are - and I don’t know half of them - there’s a real poignancy to hearing them
set to Frishberg’s melody:
Van Lingle Mungo