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Take me out to the ball game : the story of the sensational baseball song
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Take me out to the ball game : the story of the sensational baseball song

Author: Amy Whorf McGuiggan
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : English
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Supplies the details behind the song's - "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" - beginnings in 1908, when Jack Norworth, a vaudeville headliner and Tin Pan Alley songwriter who had never even been to a  Read more...

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Named Person: Albert Von Tilzer; Jack Norworth; Albert Von Tilzer
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Amy Whorf McGuiggan
ISBN: 9780803218918 0803218915
OCLC Number: 247440503
Description: xxi, 123 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Contents: The early years : a brief history of baseball --
The new century --
Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats --
1908 : the year of the song --
Baseball and music --
Take me out to the ball game : the sensational baseball song --
Let me hear you good and loud-a-one, a-two, a-three --
Baseball as vaudeville --
Exit smiling.
Responsibility: Amy Whorf McGuiggan ; foreword by Mike Veeck.
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"McGuiggan has painstakingly researched the cultural and historical times from which the beloved song emerged and has given baseball fans her own picturesque play-by-play of the making of the hit Read more...

 
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