Baseball Fans Don't Know Jack...

[Will E Worm]

Baseball Fans Don't Know Jack (Norworth)

There's a small, worn grave embedded in the earth in Anaheim, Calif. You can barely make out the name on the marker, which is within view of Anaheim Stadium, where the Angels play.

When fans arise for the seventh-inning stretch to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," few of them realize that the man responsible for baseball's unofficial theme song, Jack Norworth, is buried not five minutes away.

Norworth had never even attended a major league game before penning the song everyone now associates with going to a ballpark. The guy was riding a New York subway in 1908, when he was inspired by an ad for the Polo Grounds, where the San Francisco Giants once played.

Tim Wiles, co-author of "Baseball's Greatest Hit: The Story of Take Me Out to the Ball Game," remembers Norworth, and he wishes others did, too.

"I don't think Jack Norworth is at all fully appreciated by society," said Wiles, who serves as director of research at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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[jod0565]

I **** that song.

 

[Will E Worm]

I **** that song.

So, you had to let us all know? Thanks. :tongue:

It's an historic song and true fans like the song. :hatsoff:

 

[jod0565]

Good, True fans can sing it all day long then.

Worm!!!!

 

[Jagger69]

It's a great song....nothing like springtime and baseball. Season starts tonight!

 

[Will E Worm]

Good, True fans can sing it all day long then.

Worm!!!!

You love it. :tongue:

It's a great song....nothing like springtime and baseball. Season starts tonight!

Actually baseball doesn't truly start until the Reds first game.

 

[bodie54]

The Reds :1orglaugh

The Reds are about as relevant as my Pirates, meaning not at all :1orglaugh

 

[Will E Worm]

The Reds :1orglaugh

The Reds are about as relevant as my Pirates, meaning not at all :1orglaugh

:nono: They have a great team this year.

We will wait and see.

 

[StanScratch]

As much as I loath the Cubs and all that, the song is hardly the same without Harry singing it. Went to his Hall-of-Fame induction ceremony at Cooperstown in 1988, where he lead the crowd in a rendition of Take Me Out To The Ball Game. Truly one of the funner baseball-related moments I experienced in real life.