Table of Contents

Foreword by Mike Veeck 

Acknowledgments  

Introduction: Up with the Curtain; On with the Show  

1. The Early Years: A Brief History of Baseball

2. The New Century     

3. Ladies and Gentlemen, Please Take Your Seats

4. 1908: The Year of the Song

5. Baseball and Music  

6. Take Me Out to the Ball Game: The Sensational Baseball Song   

7. Let Me Hear You Good and Loud . . . A-one, A-two, A-three     

8. Baseball as Vaudeville    

9. Exit Smiling  

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The history of the song, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and its place in the tradition and nostalgia of baseball

About the Author

Amy Whorf McGuiggan is a freelance writer and the author of My Provincetown and Christmas in New England. She lives in Hingham, Massachusetts. Mike Veeck is president and co-owner of six Minor League baseball teams and the author of Fun Is Good: How to Create Joy & Passion in Your Workplace & Career.

Reviews

"McGuiggan has painstakingly researched the cultural and historical times from which the beloved song emerged and has given baseball fans her own picturesque play-by-play of the making of the hit song. If the song vividly captures the experience of going to the ball game, so too does this book capture the spirit of the times. A home run!"oErnie Harwell, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Radio Hall of Fame sportscaster, songwriter, and longtime voice of the Detroit Tigers