Baseball fans!
The Federalist blog posted one of the earliest recordings of "Take Me Out To The Ball Game". It was by the Hadyn Quartet (later the Hayden Quartet) from 1908 on the Victor Recording Company label. Go here for a Wikipedia history of the song.
To hear it at The Federalist, go here.
My favorite rendition of the chorus to the song was featured in A Night At The Opera with the Marx Brothers in 1935.
Here's a video of it:
Of course, my favorite baseball song of more recent years has to be "Willie, Mickey and the Duke (Talking Baseball)" of which I have a 45 rpm single of
Here it is:
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