As baseball season revs up, it is only fitting that we remember the guy who wrote the song that everyone sings at the seventh-inning. Jack Norworth is profiled in a recent piece on AOL.

“When fans arise for the seventh-inning stretch to sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” few of them realize that the man responsible for baseball’s unofficial theme song, Jack Norworth, is buried not five minutes away,” writes Chris Epting.

Turns out he’d never even seen a game before writing the ditty that honor America’s favorite sport!

“He is still forever tied to the game–whether people know it or not,” says Epting.

Read the whole story.

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