Baseball season has begun!
In celebration of this, Modern Graphic History Library would like to present its rendition of the classic baseball song we all know and sing during the seventh inning stretch. (Please note, since MGHL is located at Washington University in St. Louis … there might be a slight hometown bias.)
Take me out to the ballgame …
by Bill Charmatz, Sports Illustrated, March 4, 1963
Take me out with the crowd.
by Robert Weaver, painted during an assignment for Sports Illustrated, 1962
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack.
by unknown illustrator, Saturday Evening Post, July 13, 1918
I don’t care if I never get back.
by Harry N. Anderson, publication and date unknown
Let me root, root, root for the home team …
by Ermes Hanlin Baker, Time, September 5, 1949
If they don’t win, it’s a shame.
by Ken Dallison, Patient Care, May 30, 1972
For it’s one, two …
by Charles Dana Gibson, Collier’s, May 7, 1904
three strikes you’re out …
by Ronald McLeod, Collier’s, April 11, 1936
at the old ballgame!
by Norman Rockwell, Saturday Evening Post, September 4, 1948
Credits:
The Robert Weaver painting is from the Robert Weaver Collection.
All other images are from the Walt Reed Illustration Archive.
