May 2nd is a very special day....
One hundred years ago, on this date in 1908, baseball's unofficial anthem "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" premiered. It instantly became one of the biggest sellers of that year, in both sheet music and on piano rolls.
One thing I never knew: The song as we know it today is merely the chorus of a two-stanza song. Imagine that. Here are the original lyrics, and here's a recording of a guy singing it on an Edison phonograph cylinder.
Here are the Detroit Tigers in 1908:
Oh yeah, and it's Wrymouth's birthday today. Happy Day, my brother!
That's right! Happy Birthday Wry.......or to put it in a way Wry understands......"Joyous anniversary of the Dawning of your arrival onto this terrestrial outpost of the Universe"........
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Happy birthday to you, my dear. (thanks for the nice notice, Dem)
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I am late saying Happy Birthday...but then I am in a future timezone, so that means I'm a day less late than I might have been in wishing you many happy returns. :)
I like the guys' outfits in the photo. the cosy cardigans and plus-fours. Hope they haven't exchanged them for that horrible itchy stretchy material that football shirts are made of in the UK. Modern Benedictines would wear those, I'm sure, instead of horsehair undershirts, should they feel the need to do penance.
Baseball outfits look comfy, like our cotton Rugby tops, and I'm hoping they stuck with tradition and kept their individual sense of style.
Okay Wry...I am looking at the photo, but I can't make out which one is you. (Jist kiddin, ye ken. A typically Scottish birthday jest.)
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Many, Many Thanks, Everyone.
Also:
"Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin"
;o/
My take? See above post; thanks to Dr. "Maslow" Bob
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I will admit, Rowan, that when I wear my baseball uniform, I *do* blouse my knickers as shown, so that you can see my socks all the way up to my knees -- or as far as I can get the "hemline" of my knickers to get.
Nowadays, that is called "old school," although we old-timers just call it "the correct way to wear your uniform."
;o/
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