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U.S. #4341
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Issue Date: July 16, 2008
City: Washington, DC
Earlier in 1908, songwriter Jack Norworth was riding the subway in New York when he happened to glance out the window and find inspiration in a sign. It simply said, “Baseball Today – Polo Grounds.”
Though Norworth had never been to a baseball game, the simple poster seemed to spark his imagination and he quickly got an idea for a skit involving a woman who was more of a baseball fan than the boys. He pulled out a piece of paper and during his 15-minute subway ride, penned the song. In the full song, a woman named Katie Casey tells her beau she’ll only accept a date if he takes her to a baseball game.
Norworth was excited over his new song but needed a tune to go with it, so he contacted composer Albert von Tilzer, who had also never been to a baseball game. (They would both finally see their first game more than 20 years after composing the song.) Tilzer went about creating the tune, and when it was done, they submitted it to the US Copyright Office on May 2, 1908.