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	Jack Norworth: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Norworth was born in Philadelphia, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the united states....
		Norworth is an inductee in the Songwriters Hall of Fame Songwriters Hall of Fame quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jack_norworth.htm (982 words)

	Activity Connection.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jack Norworth (1879-1959), as it happens, wasn't looking to write the quintessential American baseball song.
		Norworth had never seen a baseball game, but he happened to have a few sheets of yellow paper with him.
		Norworth contacted Albert Von Tilzer (1878-1956), a composer and friend, and asked him to write the melody for his new lyrics.
	www.activityconnection.com /MembersOnly/April2004/musicmatters.htm (1255 words)

	Take me out to the Ballgame
		Jack Norworth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a musical family.
		Young Norworth left his family to join a minstrel show, and eventually became a song and dance man. He went on to headline vaudeville for twenty years.
		Norworth's original lyric is at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
	www.ndll.org /Ballgame.html (479 words)

	Songwriters Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ironically, neither Norworth or Tilzer had ever been to a baseball game at the time the song was written, but it became the second most widely sung song in America (second only to the National Anthem) and a #1 hit in 1908 for Billy Murray and Haydn Quartet.
		Norworth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 5, 1879.
		Jack Norworth died in Laguna Beach, California on September 1, 1959.
	www.songwritershalloffame.org /exhibit_bio.asp?exhibitId=267 (265 words)

	The odd origins of that seventh-inning symphony \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Yet Jack Norworth, the Broadway headliner who wrote the lyrics in 1908, knew as much about balls and strikes at the time as a rookie kitchen boy knows about crêpes suzette.
		Norworth and Bayes were probably Broadway's most popular husband-and-wife song-and-dance team of the era.
		The lead-in to Norworth's lyrics, which are never heard today, concern an attractive young lady named Katie (later changed to Nelly) Casey whose new boyfriend wants to make an impression by taking her to a top Broadway musical.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0402/p18s03-hfes.htm (449 words)

	CNNSI.com - SI Online - Frank Deford - SI's Frank Deford: That other anthem - Thursday April 04, 2002 12:54 PM
		Inspired, even though he'd never seen a single baseball game in all his life, Norworth immediately scribbled two verses and a refrain on a sacred scrap of paper that is now enshrined in the Hall of Fame.
		As befits a man known as Handsome Jack, Norworth was married to the beautiful Nora Bayes, then the most popular chanteuse in the land.
		Norworth finally did manage to see a game -- in 1940, 32 years after he wrote the song.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /inside_game/frank_deford/news/2002/04/04/viewpoint (754 words)

	SignOnSanDiego Don Freeman -- She has the most famous hit in baseball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Known as "Handsome Jack," Norworth was a singer out of Philadelphia, a tenor who was appearing with Nora Bayes in the inaugural Follies produced by Florenz Ziegfeld in 1907.
		Norworth, by the way, had never seen a baseball game and had no interest in the sport.
		Norworth was pleased with the words he had created and he showed them to his collaborator, Von Tilzer.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/freeman/20011102-9999_1c2freeman.html (676 words)

	Answer to Trivia Question 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jack Norworth's other legacy to baseball is his founding of the Laguna Beach Little League in 1952.
		Cracker Jacks honored Jack on the 50th anniversary of writing the lyrics by giving LBLL the Jack Norworth Trophy.
		Jack's other tradition is still in place after 46 seasons: every ball player is given a box of Cracker Jacks at opening day ceremonies.
	www.swazoo.com /trivans8.html (190 words)

	Take Me Out to the Ball Game by Jack Norworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was not quite as famous as Jack Norworth's 1908 classic, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, which was written on some scrap paper on a train ride to Manhattan, New York.
		Norworth then provided those paper scrap lyrics to Albert Von Tilzer who composed the music which in turn was published by the
		Norworth was a very successful vaudeville entertainer / songwriter and spent fifteen minutes writing this classic which is sung during the seventh inning stretch at nearly every ball park in the country.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /poetry/po_stmo.shtml (505 words)

	Catalogue » Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth: Together and Alone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jack's "For Months and Months and Months" is a humorous, often autobiographical romp through its protagonist's misadventures.
		Nora took another break from recording just as 1914 was ending, and now Jack Norworth, equally a star attraction in vaudeville, left for a sustained period in England.
		Bayes returned to recording in 1916 with a great number, "Homesickness Blues." Her songs were now featured on double-sided discs, so the flipside was "The Greatest Battle Song of All," a comic war song in which "Here Comes the Bride" is the greatest battle song, beating out all other nationalist anthems.
	www.archeophone.com /product_info.php?products_id=55 (1261 words)

	sol1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		What is fascinating about the song is it was written by two guys who never had been to a professional ball game.
		Jack Norworth, who also wrote the words to the song, "Shine on Harvest Moon", wrote the words.
		However, I must say that I glad Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer wrote that wonderful song even when they had never yet been to a ball game.
	religionworld.org /dd/archiv2/516.htm (268 words)

	New York Daily News - City Life - Big Town Songbook: Root root root (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jack Norworth lived for 80 years and made his reputation in about 30 minutes, which is the length of the subway ride on which he composed the lyrics for "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," a song millions of strangers join to sing hundreds of thousands of times each American baseball season.
		But he happened to have a few sheets of yellow paper with him, and he got the idea for a skit that would use base ball to showcase a pretty girl who was a bigger fan than even the boys.
		Von Tilzer lived until 1956 and Norworth till 1959, spending his final years running a showbiz novelty shop in Hollywood and still, on request, performing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," which by the time of his death was estimated to be the third-most-performed song in the country, after the national anthem and "Happy Birthday."
	www.nydailynews.com /city_life/story/306236p-262009c.html (768 words)

	NPR : Cracker Jack, Present at the Creation
		Whatever the reason, Cracker Jack has earned a place in the hearts and stomachs of many Americans, though in recent years the snack hasn't carried quite the same clout as it once did.
		One of the main ingredients that has helped Cracker Jack make a lasting impression, not to mention one of the first things that kids will look for on popping open a box, is the prize.
		In 1908, Jack Norworth wrote the words to "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" in just 30 minutes on a subway ride and then handed them over to Albert Von Tilzer, who pounded out the melody that can be heard emanating from ballparks on just about any given summer day.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/patc/crackerjack (1100 words)

	Thirty Years of Making Music Grow
		Jack and Amy Norworth perform one of his compositions in their Laguna Beach, California apartment in 1958.
		Jack Norworth (1879-1959) is the name behind the beginning of The ASCAP Foundation.
		Royalties for these and Norworth's other songs launched The ASCAP Foundation in 1975 after his widow, Amy Swor Norworth, left a bequest to ASCAP to establish the Jack and Amy Norworth Memorial Fund to assist deserving young composers.
	www.ascap.com /playback/2005/summer/foundation/thirty_years.html (304 words)

	Sheet Music: Z
		Jack Norworth (w) -- Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth (m).
		Jack Yellen and Roger Lewis (w) -- Ernie Erdman and Abe Oldman (m).
		Jack Elliot Bayha and Chris Smith (w and m).
	speccoll.library.kent.edu /music/sheetmusic/sheetmusZ.html (2095 words)

	Jack's still the snack
		Cracker Jack was not alone in joining the budding world of processed foods during those turn-of-the-century years.
		Even if Cracker Jack is as homey and familiar as the game with which it is linked, its life on the American scene has not been free of rift.
		Indeed, Cracker Jack is sold at every major-league ballpark in the U.S. and at many minor-league ones.
	www.ocregister.com /ocr/2005/06/07/sections/wine_food/wine_food/article_542865.php (953 words)

	CrackerJack.com
		1893 According to legend, a unique popcorn, peanuts and molasses confection that was the forerunner to Cracker Jack caramel coated popcorn and peanuts is introduced by F.W. Rueckheim and Brother, at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago's first World's Fair.
		1955 Cracker Jack begins advertising on television with the appearance of Cracker Jack on CBS-TV's "On Your Account" which is televised to 130 stations nationally.
		Cracker Jack releases Butter Toffee Clusters in November.
	www.crackerjack.com /history.php (327 words)

	The Oakland Press: Sports Columnists: Yankees are no longer a Cracker Jack ballclub
		T he story goes that, in 1908, a vaudeville entertainer named Jack Norworth boarded an uptown-bound el in Manhattan and noticed a sign proclaiming, "Baseball Today - Polo Grounds.
		Now, 96 years after Norworth penned his simple verse, the supposedly most tradition-bound franchise in a supposedly most tradition-bound game is dropping Cracker Jack from the ballpark experience.
		The suspicion here is the Yankees are dropping Cracker Jack because they got a better deal from the makers of Crunch 'N Munch.
	www.theoaklandpress.com /stories/052304/spo_052388.shtml (1270 words)

	NORA BAYES
		Undoubtedly, her most famous song, "Shine On, Harvest Moon," written in collaboration with her second husband, Jack Norworth, has been one of the most recorded and performed of American popular songs.
		As the album notes from a 1950s recording by the Cities Service Green and White Quartet states, "The song, SHINE ON, HARVEST MOON, was written and made famous by Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes, singing sweethearts of many years ago.
		And when the loving pair played any theatre, the lights out front blazed with a chivalrous message: 'Nora Bayes, assisted and admired by Jack Norworth.'" She and Norworth recorded the song for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New Yor on 7 March 1910, but because of technical problems the record was never released.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/live_and_on_stage/90290 (603 words)

	Amazon.com: Take Me Out to the Ballgame: Books: Jack Norworth,Jim Burke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The complete lyrics of the famous baseball song, some of which will be unfamiliar to young readers, provide the framework for this commentary on a legendary New York game: the historic and still controversial 1908 showdown between the New York Giants and the Chicago Cubs.
		An introduction by veteran author and New Yorker Pete Hamill establishes broader historical context, and full song lyrics with musical notation are appended (along with a reproduction of composer Jack Norworth's original manuscript).
		The lyrics are by Jack Norworth and the illustrations are by Jim Burke.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316758191?v=glance (935 words)

	'N' ENTRIES - Page 1 on the COMPOSERS - LYRICISTS DATABASE
		Still, many musicologists now feel that the tune was composed solely by Norworth, with credit also given to his wife.
		Among the other tunes Norworth composed for Nora are such hits as "Take Me Out To The Ball Game", and for her 1910 show The Jolly Bachelor, he composed "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly".
		One of her post-WWI recording hits was "How Ya Gonna Keep Them Down On The Farm (After They've Seen Paree?)" In 1916, Norworth tired of Nora's frequent tantrums, and the couple divorced.
	nfo.net /cal/tn1.html (2604 words)

	C:\PROGRA~1\WS_FTP\GTRPGH~1\PBP110~2.HTM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jack Norworth wrote the words, and Nora Bayes wrote the music They were a vaudeville couple who introduced the song in "The Follies of 1908."
		Here's an excerpt from album notes from an early 1950's recording by the Cities Service Green and White Quartet, thanks to Joseph Schlesinger, Houston, who seems to have a recording of every barbershop quartet ever recorded.
		The song, SHINE ON, HARVEST MOON, was written and made famous by Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes, singing sweethearts of many years ago.
	www.harmonize.com /greaterpittsburgh/pbp1104-12.htm (292 words)

	Old Cardboard: Vintage Baseball Cards
		One fateful day in 1908 when Jack Norworth was riding a New York City subway, he spotted a sign that read "Ballgame Today at the Polo Grounds." By the end of his ride, he had scratched out some baseball-related lyrics that were later set to music by Albert Von Tilzer.
		Despite the fact that neither Norworth nor Tilzer had ever been to a baseball game at the time the song was written, it is today one of the most widely sung songs in America.
		Less well known is the fact that Jack Norworth wrote well over 2000 songs, including Shine On, Harvest Moon, and several other baseball songs.
	www.oldcardboard.com /e/e2/e145/ballgame.asp (237 words)

	Take Me Out to the Ball Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1908, a vaudeville star from Philadelphia called Handsome Jack Norworth was riding a New York City subway train when a placard at a station stop caught his eye.
		He was pleased with the words he had created and he brought them to Tin Pan Alley composer Albert Von Tilzer, who went to the piano and created a tune that blended with the words.
		The song was introduced at the Ziegfeld Follies by Norworth’s wife, the soprano Nora Bayes, and it became the hit of the Follies.
	home.comcast.net /~buffalohead/takemeout.htm (438 words)

	Movie Database - tvguide.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A film adaptation of the the life of Broadway vaudevillian Nora Bayes, played by Sheridan, who becomes business partner and eventually marriage partner to Jack Norworth (Morgan).
		The story veers a bit far from actual fact, but things had to be spiced up a bit to make the story entertaining.
		In the sequence, filmed in color, Sheridan and Morgan perform the title song (Jack Norworth, Nora Bayes).
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=20164 (141 words)

	Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia
		It would be quicker to list those who aren't in here than those who are, except that I haven't found anyone yet who isn't.
		Every Hall of Famer, of course, and every important baseball executive and commissioner, but also Eddie Gaedel (the midget with the 1.000 on-base percentage), Jack Norworth (who wrote the lyrics to guess what song), and the greatest of all baseball fiction writers, Ring Lardner.
		This volume is clearly not meant to be digested in one or even a few sittings.
	www.davidpietrusza.com /biog-baseball.html (806 words)

	Internet Broadway Database: Belmont Theatre Details
		Built by Jack Norworth, lyricist of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." He managed it only through the run of its first show.
		New management renamed it the Belmont and suffered two flops before booking a season of French drama and changing the name to Theatre Parisien.
		By 1920, it was once again the Belmont and remained so until 1933, when it shuttered, staying dark until 1937, when (after a four performance return to legit use) it became a movie house.
	www.ibdb.com /venue.asp?ID=1314 (206 words)

	Take Me Out To The Ball Game - MIDI Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1908, lyricist and showman Jack Norworth (who had never attended a baseball game) was inspired to write a poem by a baseball advertisement he saw in a subway car.
		He then collaborated with the composer Albert Von Tilzer to produce everybody's favorite waltz.
		Norworth was married to vaudeville singer Nora Bayes, who later "introduced" Irving Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band."
	www.midi-classics.com /b/b19923.htm (87 words)

	ESPN.com - Page2 - Giving baseball some street cred
		Jack Norworth penned the lyrics on a train ride to Manhattan and the song became an instant hit.
		However, a century later, Norworth's lyrics no longer speak to our current times and it's a contributing factor for baseball losing its youthful fan base.
		This cat made up his own language and, remarkably, he's able to communicate with everyone on a ghetto-fabulous level.
	espn.go.com /page2/s/bona/030401.html (449 words)

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