 Take Me Out to the Ball Game  is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of North American baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.or other uses, see Take Me Out to the Ball Game (disambiguation) . Take Me Out to the Ball Game. This, the original version of the song, was sung by Edward Meeker in 1908, and is one of the first ever recordings of the song.