"Baseball Today -- Polo Grounds."Jack Norworth, a songwriter and Vaudeville performer, saw that sign while riding a New York subway in 1908. Although not a baseball fan himself at the time, he saw the meaning in a single game for New York Giants fans and for so many others.
It inspired him to pen the lyrics to a song that would be called "Take Me Out To The Ball Game," and now an institution within the national pastime is about to be celebrated in fitting style.
Style in this case would be:
Beginning Opening Day and continuing throughout Opening Week, Major League Baseball, along with many Major League clubs, will host in-park searches for the most talented performers of the unofficial anthem of baseball fans everywhere. Starting on Opening Day and continuing through June, fans will also be able to enter by submitting audio or video clips of their performance to Major League Baseball at MLB.com. Club winners will also be featured on MLB.com.
The winner of the nationwide search will lead the crowd in the singing of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch of the 2008 All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium.
Look. I'll end this contest right now. One word. OZZIE!
Oh, you have to be a non-professional singer to enter? Just go to YouTube, type in the song title and you'll get a lot of unprofessional singers and performers.
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