Take me out to the ball game
Take me out to the crowd
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don;t care if I never get back
Let me root, root, root for the home team
If they don't win it's a shame
For it's one, two, three strikes you;re out
At the old ball game
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of one of the most popular baseball songs. Written by Jack Norworth the words were put to music by Albert Von Tilzer. Nor worth wrote the song after seeing a sign in a subway car advertising "Baseball Today - Polo Grounds (NY)". In the song Katie's beau calls to ask her out to see a show. She accepts, but only if they go to a ballgame instead...
Nor worth at the time had never been to a baseball game himself, nor had Von Tilzer..
The earliest recording of the song was by Edward Meeker in 1908.
The stamp was designed by Richard Sheaff, who has been a design consultant to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee since 1983...
USPS digital color postmark
(illustration by Edward Penfield)
From US Postal Service Art Director Richard Sheaff's site "Sheaff: ephemera" above are a couple of unused designs for the Take Me Out to the Ballgame stamp
As Mr Sheaff states, multiple possible designs are presented for discussion and consideration, and some other - often better - concept may be chosen...
1908 sheet music
