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Take Who Out to the Ball Game?

Season 5
July 8, 2020

Baseball fan or not, you know this song…or at least, you think you do. “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” is one of the top three most recognizable songs in the country, next to the “The Star Spangled Banner” and “Happy Birthday.” But long-forgotten lyrics reveal a feminist message buried amid the peanuts and cracker jack.

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32c Babe Ruth single

Nolan Ryan

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Outta Here!

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Carlton Fisk

Stephen King

Stamp with illustration of a baseball player sliding into base and the catcher tagging him "out"

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Ken Griffey, Jr., Chicago 1994

Lou Newman Collection of Baseball Memorabilia

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Anthony Rendon's Little League baseball glove

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