Its now officially less than two months until the Bravess first game of Spring Training! From todays The Writers Almanac: its the birthday of Jack Norworth, born in Philadelphia in 1879. He was an actor in vaudeville and Broadway shows, and sometimes he wrote song lyrics. Jack Norworth had never been to a baseball game, but one day in 1908, he was riding the subway and he saw a sign that said Baseball Today - Polo Grounds, and he started thinking of baseball lyrics. He wrote them down on a piece of scratch paper, and then took them to the composer Albert Von Tilzer, another man who had never seen a baseball game, who went ahead and wrote the music. And the song became very famous, and you probably know all the lyrics Jack Norworth wrote to the song Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 14:58:48 +0000
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