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The secret history of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The Role of Women in the Baseball Game

Songwriter Jack Norworth wrote the lyrics to Take Me Out to the Ball Game in 1908. It was the year the Model T Ford came out. Well-to-do ladies carried parasols and wore sweeping skirts, which probably didn't help their popularity at the ballpark.

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