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"Take Me Out To The Ball" Game Turns 100
A famous song is 100 years old and Major League Baseball has big plans to celebrate. The song is "Take Me Out To The Ball Game." For baseball fans, singing the song together is a seventh inning stretch tradition. At Chicago's Wrigley Field everyone from Muhammad Ali to Barney the Dinosaur has led the Cubs' fans in the song.
Major League Baseball is taking video submissions of people singing the song for a contest. Anyone can enter. A panel will pick the top 10, and then you can vote online for your favorite. Whoever has the winning video will get to lead the song at the 2008 All Star game at Yankee Stadium.
Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer composed "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" in 1908. Before people sang it at ball games, they sang it in movie theaters. Back then, movies were on reels of film, and when one reel finished in the middle, the audience had to wait for a projectionist to change to the next reel. While they waited, they'd sing the song. Singing it at baseball games became a tradition in the 1970s. "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" is the third most sung song in the United States, after "Happy Birthday" and "The Star Spangled Banner".
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Photo: AP
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