More than a century after Jack Norworth penned the lyrics, a nonprofit founded with the song's royalties is celebrating 50 ...

It’s sung at baseball stadiums around the United States. But the impact of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” goes much further ...

When Jack Dietrich was born in Chicago in 1917, his mother named him for one of the nation's favorite treats -- Cracker Jack. The moniker was a natural. Her grandfather Frederick William Rueckheim ...

It’s the centennial of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” that ever-present song that’s as much a part of baseball games as hot dogs and home runs. On its 100th anniversary, the famous tune ...

Founded in 1975 with a bequest from the estate of Tin Pan Alley songwriter Jack Norworth-the songwriter behind "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"-The ASCAP Foundation has supported American music ...

Other teams picked it up, and soon it was played in every major league baseball park during the seventh inning stretch. Jack Norworth, a vaudeville performer and Tin Pan Alley songwriter, wrote the ...

Jack Norworth wrote “Harvest Moon” when he and Nora Bayes were married. They sang it in the first Ziegfeld Follies in which Nora wore a white muslin dress, a floppy hat and Jack white flannels ...

The songwriters, Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer, probably had little idea how profitable their song could be when they composed it, decades before either of them would ever attend a major ...

While some argue that the term "hot dog" may have been coined from a cartoonist attending a ball game, what is known is that Jack Norworth referenced peanuts and Cracker Jack in "Take Me Out to ...

Readers can read the lyrics to the perennial baseball anthem, while listening to a tinny instrumental recording that plays when the book opens. Scenes alternate between mid-action plays on the ...