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

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The Rise and Fall of the Ballpark Organ

The ballpark organ made its debut at the Chicago Cubs' Wrigley Field in 1941. Take me out to the ball game became a classic in the late 40s when Frank Sinatra started a movie coincidentally called Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Nancy Faust was 23 years old when she started playing Oregon for the Chicago White Sox. She says she feels a bit of kinship with the fictional Katie Casey.

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