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    Who wrote the American classic 'Take Me Out To The Ballgame'?

    Question #21617. Asked by Jimbo.

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    This song was written in 1908 by a man named Jack Norworth. One day when he was riding a New York City subway train, he spotted a sign that said 'Ballgame Today at the Polo Grounds.' Some baseball-related lyrics popped into his head, that were later set to some music by Albert Von Tilzer, to become the well known baseball song, 'Take Me Out To The Ballgame.' Despite the fact that neither Norworth or Tilzer had ever been to a baseball game at the time the song was written, it became the second most widely sung song in America, second only to the National Anthem.

    http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/ballgame.htm

    Aug 20 02, 7:44 AM

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