{"id":150,"date":"2009-10-09T10:08:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T15:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/chicagoarea\/?p=150"},"modified":"2009-10-09T10:08:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T15:08:33","slug":"major-league-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/chicagoarea\/2009\/10\/09\/major-league-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may think of baseball as a summer sport, but the Major League Baseball post-season has just begun. \u00a0There hasn\u2019t been much talk about the World Series in Chicago, probably because we don\u2019t have a team in the playoffs.\u00a0 Nevertheless its time to Play Ball!\u00a0 If you are not familiar with the rules of baseball, you can learn them here <a href=\"http:\/\/aupairinamerica.com\/resources\/life_in_the_us\/baseball.asp\">http:\/\/aupairinamerica.com\/resources\/life_in_the_us\/baseball.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>In my opinion<\/em>, all you really need to know is what to do during the seventh inning stretch. Between the halves of the seventh inning of any game the fans all stand up to stretch, get last minute snacks and SING. \u00a0Yes, they sing\u00a0 &#8220;Take Me Out to the Ball Game\u201d.\u00a0 Here in Chicago the late Harry Caray regularly led the crowd in a rousing rendition of the song, originally written by Jack Norworth.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;Take me out to the ball game; take me out with the crowd.\u00a0 Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack, I don&#8217;t care if I never get back, Let me root, root, root for the CUBBIES, if they don&#8217;t win it&#8217;s a shame.\u00a0 For its one, two, three strikes, you&#8217;re out, at the old ball game.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, au pairs, get some peanuts and Cracker Jacks and take part in a great American tradition!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Version of Take Me Out to the Ball Game<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take me out to the ball game, take me out with the crowd.\u00a0 Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack, I don&#8217;t care if I never get back,<br \/>\nLet me root, root, root for the home team, if they don&#8217;t win it&#8217;s a shame.\u00a0 For its one, two, three strikes, you&#8217;re out, at the old ball game.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may think of baseball as a summer sport, but the Major League Baseball post-season has just begun. \u00a0There hasn\u2019t been much talk about the World Series in Chicago, probably because we don\u2019t have a team in the playoffs.\u00a0 Nevertheless its time to Play Ball!\u00a0 If you are not familiar with the rules of baseball,  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/chicagoarea\/2009\/10\/09\/major-league-baseball\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[16,21,27,32,46,81,151],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-kids","tag-au-pair","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-childcare","tag-cracker-jacks","tag-harry-caray","tag-world-series"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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