Literary/musical blast from the past: TMOTTBG

June 27, 2011

Bookshelf shorthand for Take Me Out to The Ball Game, as per Baseball-Reference.com’s Bullpen:

To honor the lyricist of Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Jack Norworth Day is celebrated at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Neither Norworth nor his partner Albert Von Tilzer, who wrote the music, had ever seen a game when they created the song in 1908.

Pertinent titles:

By the way, now you can “star” in your own TMOTTBG “video,” courtesy of the clever folks at JibJab.com. Just upload head-shots of up to five people and the website does the rest. Kinda cool and you can post it to your favorite social site or email it to friends. Warning: it’ll cost you $5 if you want to download it.

Finally, while we’re on the music kick, The New York Times ran this story about the upcoming Rhythms of the Game: The Link Between Musical and Athletic Performance, by former Yankee Bernie Williams, Dave Gluck, and Bob Thompson (Hal Leonard Books). Thompson was one of the trio of authors of the aforementioned Baseball’s Greatest Hit: The Story of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.


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