"Take Me Out to the Ballgame" ... Suffrages inspired song...

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The famous song "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" was inspired by a suffrages named Trixie Friganza and the woman in the song Katie Casey was the rising spirit of women's rights and passion for baseball... and a love triangle too...

Take Me Out to the Ball Game - Wikipedia

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"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is one of the three-most recognizable songs in the US, along with "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Happy Birthday."[citation needed] However, most people are only familiar with the chorus.[2]

Trixie Friganza - Wikipedia

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Trixie Friganza (born Delia O'Callaghan; November 29, 1870 – February 27, 1955) was an American actress. She began her career as an operetta soubrette, working her way from the chorus to starring in musical comedies to having her own feature act on the vaudeville circuit.

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" - Baseball’s Greatest Hits: The Music of Our National Game | Exhibitions - Library of Congress

Composer and music publisher Albert Von Tilzer and lyricist Jack Norworth penned their hit song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” in April 1908. Within weeks it was debuted, registered for copyright, and published.

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Tin Pan Alley’s legendary composer and music publisher Albert Von Tilzer and lyricist Jack Norworth penned their grand-slam hit song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” in April 1908

The 1908 version...

 

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Organs remember at baseball games

 

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Here are the lyrics to "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" the 1908 and the 1927 versions... The 1927 version was not a head strong women...

Take Me Out to the Ball Game by Jack Norworth | Baseball Almanac

Take Me Out to the Ballgame lyrics, song history, free audio samples, by Baseball Almanac.

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1908 version...

Katie Casey was base ball mad.
Had the fever and had it bad;
Just to root for the home town crew,
Ev'ry sou Katie blew.
On a Saturday, her young beau
Called to see if she'd like to go,
To see a show but Miss Kate said,
"No, I'll tell you what you can do."


"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."

Katie Casey saw all the games,
Knew the players by their first names;
Told the umpire he was wrong,
All along good and strong.
When the score was just two to two,
Katie Casey knew what to do,
Just to cheer up the boys she knew,
She made the gang sing this song:

"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."

1927 version is changed...


Nelly Kelly love baseball games,
Knew the players, knew all their names,
You could see her there ev'ry day,
Shout "Hurray," when they'd play.
Her boy friend by the name of Joe
Said, "To Coney Isle, dear, let's go,"
Then Nelly started to fret and pout,
And to him I heard her shout.

"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."

Nelly Kelly was sure some fan,
She would root just like any man,
Told the umpire he was wrong,
All along, good and strong.
When the score was just two to two,
Nelly Kelly knew what to do,
Just to cheer up the boys she knew,
She made the gang sing this song.

"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."

 

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Here is another icon Jumbo never existed in our language until Jumbo the Elephant became an animal superstar...and today we have Jumbo mean largest... Jumbo bag of peanuts, jumbo size anything... All related back to Jumbo the Elephant...

https://dp.la/exhibitions/patent-medicine/animals-advertising/jumbo-the-elephant

Jumbo’s arrival in the United States ushered in an era of “Jumbo-mania,” in which all things related to Jumbo the elephant were wildly popular. The American consumer market were flooded with thousands of images of Jumbo endorsing thread, birthday cards, candy, clothing, jewelry, soap and various patent medicines.

https://jvc.oup.com/2021/04/08/jumbo-the-elephant/

The word jumbo began to take on a new meaning, no longer clumsy and ungainly but a word related to something that was of an immense size. An elephant named Jumbo changed the meaning of an English word, and it still has that meaning today. Jumbo became a star attraction at the London Zoo.

 

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Another turn off the century song " America the Beautiful" is said to be misunderstood by most of us...

The forgotten meaning of 'America the Beautiful'

“America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker John de Graaf. While Bates’ first verse celebrates America’s beauty, the other three ask us to fully honor the values that we claim to hold.

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O beautiful for heroes proved/In liberating strife ..."

These words from the popular anthem, “America the Beautiful,” honor the soldiers who gave their lives in the American Revolution and the Civil War.

 

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Here is a story about two boys... traveling America... on horse and motorcycle... @diane

Bud and Me | The True Adventures of the Abernathy Boys

Bud and Me is a book about The True Adventures of the Abernathy Boys produced on different platforms such as CD and e-books.

budandme.com

Louis Abernathy and Temple Abernathy - Wikipedia

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Louis Van "Bud" Abernathy (December 17, 1899 – March 6, 1979) and Temple Reaves "Temp" Abernathy (March 25, 1904 – December 10, 1986) were children from Oklahoma who, without adult supervision, took several cross-country trips. On one trip they rode on horseback from Oklahoma to Manhattan in 1910 when they were 10 and 6 years old.[1]

 

[LJMYERS]

Can't get to Wheeling from Baltimore without going through Pittsburgh first seeing a game at Forbes Field.

 

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Lots of interesting people around her. No one ever heard of her until she voted for General Grant for President. This is my picture.

 

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Lots of interesting people around her. No one ever heard of her until she voted for General Grant for President. This is my picture.

You know she was well known for being an abolitionist before she tried to vote... one cause ends and another one begins...

 

[LJMYERS]

and the people around her have a story to tell. Interesting point. In life she lived across the street from Frederick Douglass.

 

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and the people around her have a story to tell. Interesting point. In life she lived across the street from Frederick Douglass.

and the people around her have a story to tell. Interesting point. In life she lived across the street from Frederick Douglass.

I have come to the conclusion you have History Dyslexia and Folklore and Myth syndrome... It is not life-threatening, just distortion issues... You know, "if the tale is better than the truth, print the tale." Little embellishments never hurt the story; they add favor... My friend John, growing up, was great at embellishing our adventures to our friends. I would always let him tell the stories of our adventures because he would embellish them, making them sound greater than what actually happened... Truth with favor enhancers...

No, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass did not live across the street from each other, although they were friends and lived in the same city of Rochester, New York, for a period. Anthony lived at 17 Madison Street from 1865 until her death in 1906. Douglass, however, moved away from Rochester in 1872 and lived his later years in Washington, D.C.

 

[LJMYERS]

Well when I was there the Frederick Douglass Museum was the next street over. It was ALWAYS closed. Let me look that up. Been to her house many times. Somehow she is related to the people who gave John Brown that farm at Lake Placid. She was a DAR member and that DAR record connects her to that Lake Placid Farm.

 

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Well when I was there the Frederick Douglass Museum was the next street over

You are using the wrong thread for this... A museum you missed...

NATIONAL ABOLITION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM

The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum honors antislavery abolitionists, their work to end slavery, and the legacy of that struggle, and strives to complete the second and ongoing abolition - the eradication of racism

www.nationalabolitionhalloffameandmuseum.org

National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum - Wikipedia

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[LJMYERS]

Lots of unbelievable things going on in Rochester NY including Winston Churchill's family living there. This little booklet upsets most historians. They lived at 8 Washington Road. Artist Gilbert Stuart was also into the Churchills. The Churchills also ran Chruchill Downs and Jerome Park.

 

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Rochester NY including Winston Churchill's family living there

His American side...

Leonard Jerome - Wikipedia

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Winton's mom was called a "Dollar Princess." You know, family has a title and no money the Churchill family...

Dollar princess - Wikipedia

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[LJMYERS]

More relatives of sorts.

 

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[LJMYERS]

People of interest: Jenny Lind, John Denver, Woody Guthrie, Patsy Cline and maybe even Nancy Cuthrie. All seem to know about the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River and have family hanging at the Fairfax Court House and Georgetown University.

 

[TomEvans]

His American side...

Leonard Jerome - Wikipedia

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Winton's mom was called a "Dollar Princess." You know, family has a title and no money the Churchill family...

Did he haggle over the price

 

[diane]

Here is a story about two boys... traveling America... on horse and motorcycle... @diane

Bud and Me | The True Adventures of the Abernathy Boys

Bud and Me is a book about The True Adventures of the Abernathy Boys produced on different platforms such as CD and e-books.

budandme.com

Louis Abernathy and Temple Abernathy - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Louis Van "Bud" Abernathy (December 17, 1899 – March 6, 1979) and Temple Reaves "Temp" Abernathy (March 25, 1904 – December 10, 1986) were children from Oklahoma who, without adult supervision, took several cross-country trips. On one trip they rode on horseback from Oklahoma to Manhattan in 1910 when they were 10 and 6 years old.[1]

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What's remarkable is the youngest of the boys died in 1989, I believe! That's why I always say the past is closer than you think. Guthrie, OK has been an interesting town for a loooong time - I'm somehow not surprised these kids took off from there. Kids didn't have a childhood in those times - my dad was living by himself and working in a mine at 13. The minute you hit your teens you were a man, it seems!

This world, unfortunately, is so very different from the world the Abernathy boys explored. I shudder to think what might happen to them now. The good news - they sure weren't as helpless as most of the kids their age are now!