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

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The Importance of Ladies at the Ballpark

In 1907, the year before he wrote Take Me out to the ball game. Norworth runs into Trixie for Ganza, who was a very well-known vaudeville star. The women's suffrage movement was gaining momentum in New York City. And they began a heated affair.

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