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