 Although Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder , who was raised in Evanston , Illinois and later San Diego County , California , is closely associated with Seattle grunge music , he has been a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan . He has performed the song " Take Me Out to the Ball Game " during the seventh @-@ inning stretch at several Cubs games and thrown out the ceremonial first pitch at Wrigley Field . His first seventh @-@ inning stretch performance had been on Independence Day ( July 4 ) 1998 . 
