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Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Travel through the gameday experience and learn how people have attended and watched baseball games through the years. Enter baseball’s great cathedrals, grab some peanuts and Cracker Jacks, and prepare to sing during the seventh-inning stretch. If you can’t make it, tune into your favorite broadcast.

  • Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York, 1914

    Hassler, William Davis, 1877-1921

    View Full Item  in New-York Historical Society
  • View of right field and Chicago skyline during World Series, Wrigley Field, 1929

    Francis Dare

    Part of Ball Park during World War Series, 1929 - at Wrigley Field, Chicago.

    View Full Item  in UC Riverside, California Museum of Photography
  • Postcard of night baseball at Yankee Stadium, New York City, 1930s

    Title from item.

    View Full Item  in Boston Public Library
  • NBC news clip about the history of Arlington Stadium, home of the Texas Rangers, 1993

    KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

    Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter Linda Frederick about the history of Arlington Stadium (previously Turnpike Stadium) which had once b…

    View Full Item  in UNT Libraries Special Collections
  • Fans on the field before Game 3 of the first World Series, Huntington Avenue Grounds, Boston, 1903

    Photograph was published in the Boston Globe on Monday, October 5, 1903. Shows fans on the field before game three on October 3, 1903. The fans had broken through a rope barrier designed to keep the s…

    View Full Item  in Boston Public Library
  • Fans entering Fenway Park for a Boston Braves game, 1918

    Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967

    Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve. Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011. Pho…

    View Full Item  in Boston Public Library
  • Poster welcoming Kansas City Monarchs fans, 1950s

    Poster welcoming KC Monarchs baseball fans. No date likely between 1951 and 1960 Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections. Side one o…

    View Full Item  in University of Missouri - Kansas City
  • New York Yankees player Babe Ruth signs autographs for fans at Fenway Park, Boston, 1934

    Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967

    Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve. Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2016. New York…

    View Full Item  in Boston Public Library
  • President Warren G. Harding shakes hands with New York Yankees player Babe Ruth, Yankee Stadium, New York, 1923

    Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967

    Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve. Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2010-2011. Pre…

    View Full Item  in Boston Public Library
  • President John F. Kennedy throws the first pitch of the 1962 baseball season, District of Columbia Stadium, April 9, 1962

    Department of the Interior. National Park Service (II). Region VI, National Capital Region

    Original caption: President John F. Kennedy throws the first pitch of the 1962 baseball season. (L-R) Special Assistant to the President Dave Powers; Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana; President Kenne…

    View Full Item  in John F. Kennedy Library
  • First Lady Barbara Bush throws ceremonial first pitch at Texas Rangers game, Dallas, April 5, 1989

    President (1989-1993 : Bush). Photograph Office. 1989-1993

    View Full Item  in George Bush Library
  • Mounted police battle Boston Royal Rooters during 1912 World Series

    Caption: Boston, World Series, Oct. '12 Copy print of original photograph missing and presumed stolen from the McGreevy Collection. Taken at Fenway Park, the photograph shows mounted police pushing fa…

    View Full Item  in Boston Public Library
  • NBC news clip about Morganna, the “kissing bandit,” at the 20th anniversary of the Astrodome, 1985

    KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

    Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Morganna, known as the kissing bandit, who planned to kiss a player at the 20th Anniversary of the Astrodom…

    View Full Item  in UNT Libraries Special Collections
  • Clergy Night at the Baltimore Orioles game, Camden Yards, 2014

    Baker, Jay

    Photograph from the Clergy Night at the Baltimore Orioles Game on July 30, 2014.

    View Full Item  in Maryland State Archives
  • Boston Royal Rooters souvenir card with lyrics to “Tessie,” 1903

    Rooter's Souvenir, Boston - Pittsburg, Oct., 1903. M.T. McGreevy. 3d Base. Nuf Ced. Who Kidnapped the Pittsburg Band: Nuf Ced - McGreevy. With lyrics to Tessie: Tessie, you are the only, only, only. C…

    View Full Item  in Boston Public Library
  • Audio of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” recorded on phonograph cylinder, 1908

    Words by Jack Norworth. Year of release and songwriting credit from "The Edison Phonograph Monthly," v.6 (1908/1909). Edward Meeker. Waltz song. Male vocal with orchestra accompaniment. Also available…

    View Full Item  in UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections
  • Tribune Building with electronic scoreboard for a baseball game, Salt Lake City, 1920s

    Shipler Commercial Photographers

    Photo showing an electronic scoreboard for a baseball game hanging in front the Tribune Building at 153 South Main Street in Salt Lake City; other occupants of the building at the time included office…

    View Full Item  in University of Utah - J. Willard Marriott Library
  • Fans listening to first World Series radio broadcast, 1925

    First Broadcast of World Series Game (1925) to be heard in Marysville; J.C. Harris N. W. corner of C and 3rd Street.

    View Full Item  in Yuba County Library
  • Promotional photograph featuring boy watching baseball on General Electric television, 1939

    General Electric Company

    Boy watching baseball game on General Electric television receiver, 1939

    View Full Item  in miSci
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