Music: Church Hymns and the History of Musical Baseball Tradition

Interesting Musical and American History!

Anthems (Selections; Selected Verse Anthems) (SHEET MUSIC): Blow, John, edited by Fredrick Tarrant

Date written was approximately 1708. Songs included: O Lord, I Have Sinned, Turn Thee Unto Me, How Doth the City Sit Solitary, Jesus, Seeing the Multitudes, I Will Cry Unto Thee, O God, Blessed Be the Lord, My Strength, Awake, Awake, Utter a Song, Let the Righteous Be Glad.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game: the Story of the Sensational Baseball Song (BOOK/SHEET MUSIC): by Amy Whorf McGuiggan foreword by Mike Veeck

Jack Norworth, a vaudeville headliner and Tin Pan Alley songwriter who had never even been to a game, was inspired by a subway advertisement to create the song that, though a hit in its day, did not become a time-honored tradition until broadcaster Harry Caray and team owner and marketing genius Bill Veeck Jr. reintroduced it during the 1970s. Here is America’s game and the American century seen through the prism of one impossibly catchy tune and illustrated throughout with vintage photographs, advertising images, and sheet music culled from America’s premier collections.

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