{"product_id":"take-me-out-to-the-ball-game-the-story-of-the-sensational-baseball-song-9780803218918","title":"Take Me Out to the Ball Game: The Story of the Sensational Baseball Song","description":"For anyone who has ever sung \"Take Me Out to the Ball Game\" during the seventh-inning stretch and wondered why we sing it when we are already at the ball game, this entertaining book supplies the answers. And why did this song become the sport's anthem rather than one of hundreds of other baseball songs, such as George M. Cohan's \"Take Your Girl to the Ball Game,\" written the same month? This story, told here in full for the first time, evokes the bright hope of turn-of-the-century America, the backstage drama of vaudeville, and the beguiling charm of baseball itself.\u003cbr\u003eAmy Whorf McGuiggan supplies the fascinating details behind the song's beginnings in 1908, when Jack Norworth, a vaudeville headliner and Tin Pan Alley songwriter who had never even been to a game, was inspired by a subway advertisement to create the song that, though a hit in its day, did not become a time-honored tradition until broadcaster Harry Caray and team owner and marketing genius Bill Veeck Jr. reintroduced it during the 1970s. Here is America's game and the American century seen through the prism of one impossibly catchy tune and illustrated throughout with vintage photographs, advertising images, and sheet music culled from America's premier collections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amy Whorf McGuiggan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.48w x 0.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803218918\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmy Whorf McGuiggan is a freelance writer and the author of \u003ci\u003eMy Provincetown\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChristmas in New England\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Hingham, Massachusetts. Mike Veeck is president and co-owner of six Minor League baseball teams and the author of \u003ci\u003eFun Is Good: How to Create Joy \u0026amp; Passion in Your Workplace \u0026amp; Career\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40138417045619,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_cacd8a21-e254-4e5d-b6a4-310d6a373c90.jpg?v=1654349298","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game-the-story-of-the-sensational-baseball-song-9780803218918","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}