AmericaJR’s Jason Rzucidlo recently visited the GRAMMY Museum in downtown Los Angeles. Take Me Out To The Ball Game: Popular Music And The National Pastime will offer insight and historical reference for the history of music in baseball. The exhibit takes you on a journey starting before the 20th century when interest in baseball-themed music was fostered through the sales of sheet music, then explains the rise of baseball songs becoming a part of a new era of American music in the early 1900s, to current day popular music being a central part of players preparing to take the field and excite the fans.
Welcome to the Grammy Museum at L.A. Live 
“Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Popular Music & The National Pastime” 
Fender baseball 
Special edition guitars 
New York Yankees No. 51 Bernie Williams “Moving Forward” guitar 
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim guitar 
Boston Red Sox Fenway Park guitar 
More special edition guitars 
No. 42 Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers guitar 
No. 42 Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers guitar 
Special edition guitars 
“Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Popular Music & The National Pastime” 
Baseball Polka sheet music 
Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams & Gene Kelly 
Babe Ruth baseball glove 
“Take Me Out to the Ball Game” 
New York Yankees and Babe Ruth 
Frank Sinatra with the Brooklyn Dodgers 
Baseball autographed by Phil “Scooter” Rizzuto” 
Baseball autographed by Mickey Mantle 
Mickey Mantle historical photograph 
Jackie Robinson from the Brooklyn Dodgers 
The Dodgers Symphony Band 
Brooklyn Dodgers t-shirt 
No. 42 Jackie Robinson jersey 
Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers memorabilia 
“42: The True Story of an American Legend” movie poster 
“No-Hitter” by Bill Singer with narration by Vin Scully 
Punk bank “X” front woman Exene Cervenka throwing the first pitch at a Dodgers game
The exhibit will run through baseball season until fall 2019. The GRAMMY Museum is located at 800 W Olympic Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90015. For more information, visit https://www.grammymuseum.org/exhibits/current-exhibits/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game