Sound familiar? Well, let me give you the whole thing...
"Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with 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."
This is Jack Norworth's 1908 classic, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", which was written on some scrap paper on a train ride to Manhattan, New York. This classic is usually sung during the seventh inning stretch at nearly every ball park in the country and did you know on the fiftieth anniversary of his song, Major League Baseball, Inc. presented Jack Norworth — who attended his first Major League ballgame on June 27, 1940 (Brooklyn Dodgers 5 vs. Chicago Cubs 4) — with a gold lifetime ball park pass.
Now why am I giving you all these facts? Because I've been inspired. On my last session I got to visit quite a bit with this guy who has a great interest in the Sport of Baseball. He has quite a collection of trophies and at the rate he gains them I'm thinking an extra room will have to be added on just to hold them all before he leaves the house. So get fired up because Spring is just around the bend and that means baseball is in the air. Just meet me at the Park & let's PLAY BAll!!