The secret history of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”
Twenty Thousand Hertz
The Story of Katie Casey
Katie Blue is a song about an independent woman who wants to go to the ball game. The Haydn Quartet recorded it in 1908. George Boswick, retired chief of the music division for the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts shows me pictures that sort of illustrate the story it tells. Katie Casey was baseball man, had the fever and had it bad, just to root for the hometown crew every soon.
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