Richard Sandomir published this appreciation of Ruth Roberts, composer of “Meet The Mets” and a couple of other baseball ditties, who died on June 30.
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The composer of “Meet the Mets” died June 30 at the age of 84. From the JTA’s Eulogizer blog: Ruth Roberts, 84, wrote ‘Meet the Mets’ Ruth Roberts, a popular song composer whose work was sung by millions of New York Mets fans and the Beatles, among many others, died June 30 at 84. Roberts [...]
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NY fan gets $10K in ‘God Bless America’ suit
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The March 31 episode of All Things Considered considered the story of the 140-year-old organ at St. Malachy Church in Philadelphia, which was damaged when the ceiling collapsed 12 years ago, damaging. Now, a fundraiser for the organ’s repair will have a baseball theme because the original builder’s grandson wrote the words to Take Me [...]
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The Story of the Sensational Baseball Song, by Amy Whorf McGuiggan. University of Nebraska Press, 2009. This slim volume would seem to be the companion for last year’s Baseball Greatest Hit. While the latter was almost a who’s who, what;’s what and where’s where of the game’s unofficial anthem, McGuiggan’s slim volume concentrates more on [...]
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GlideMagazine.com ran this glowing review of the musical CD on various aspects of the game. The tunes (some of which are R-rated) include odes to Ted Williams, Curt Flood, Joe DiMaggio, and Sandy Koufax. Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
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The Sacramento Bee’s Bruce Dancis elaborates a bit on the book marking the 100th anniversary of the game’s unofficial anthem, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” The Houston Chronicle also takes an in-depth look at the iconic ditty.
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The Story of Take Me Out to the Ball Game by Andy Strasberg, Bob Thompson, and Tim Wiles. Hal Leonard, 2008. This year marks the centennial of what baseball fans believe to be the true “national anthem” and this trio of authors have done the ditty proud. Baseball’s Greatest Hit is an “everything you always [...]
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Baseball’s real anthem celebrates its centennial this year, a fact marked by the new book, Baseball’s Greatest Hit: The Story of Take Me Out to the Ball Game, by Tim Wiles, Andy Strasberg and Bob Thomson as well as Allen Barra’s March 22 story in The Wall Street Journal.
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, by Saul Wisnia.
, by Glenn Stout
, by Steven Travers.
by Jimmy Piersall and Al Hirshberg
, by Michael Bishop and 
by Robert Coover
