Six questions about the game we call the national pastime — the founding myth that isn’t true, the secret mud, and the song nobody who wrote it had earned the right to write.
Your first question:
“Take Me Out to the Ball Game” is the unofficial anthem of American baseball — sung at the seventh-inning stretch in every ballpark in the country. Here’s the part that’s hard to believe about the man who wrote the words in 1908. What is it?
