It is the seventh inning stretch of the 60 game season and I thought we might have to alter the baseball anthem just a little bit to make it work;

Katie Casey was baseball mad

Had the fever and had it bad

Just to root for the hometown crew

EVERY DAY

In the baby blue

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:"

You can’t take me out to the ball game

Or take me out with the crowd;

But you can buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack

And I don't care if they ever come back

I will root, root, root for the home team

Whoever they are, but we’ll never know - and it's a shame

For it's still one, two, three strikes, you're out

At the strange new ball game

Katie Casey watched 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 at her home

She made the gang sing this song:

I wish you could take me out to the ball game

Take me out with the virtual crowd;

Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack

I don't care if I never get back

Let me root, root, root for some 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 – I think.

This 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer is the unofficial anthem of MLB. The authors never attended a game, but their hit ranks with Happy Birthday for well known songs in the USA.