Talk:Seventh-inning stretch

this poor article is untrue
the seventh inning stretch occurs at the end of the sixth inning for fans of the visiting team, but is celebrated at the middle of the 7th inning for fans of the home team. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CorvetteZ51 (talk • contribs) 09:52, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Yes, that is how I remember it from the early 1960s. See first paragraph here: http://www.heckledepot.com/origin-of-7th-inning-stretch/ However, the original 19th century tradition seems to have been one stretch for all spectators. Generally, the home team fans far outnumber fans of the visiting team. So, it could be that some who rooted for the visiting team interpreted the stretch before the bottom of the 7th as rooting for the home team. Then someone innovated and stretched before the top of the 7th in order to root for the visiting team. Can anyone find a reference to this tweaking of the original tradition of one stretch for all? Martindo (talk) 04:11, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

A note
I'm told other stadiums don't follow my cited example of God Bless America on Sundays. By all means, please add your own examples. I'm sure there's lots of fun data that can be included in this article. --Feitclub 22:05, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that Abraham Lincoln didn't make it to a game in 1991?! --Barters 01:21, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Plagiarism
For the record-the Minesota Twins still sing Don't Stop Believin' in thre 8th inning...that did not change when they moved to Target Feild. I know I ma from Minnesota and a very devoted Twins fan!! 140.146.235.24 (talk) 23:39, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Unfortunately, large sections of this article are taken verbatim from the About.com Guide to Urban Legend's page on the same subject, found here:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/seventh_inning.htm

For example, the second paragraph in the section called "Myths" is copied in whole from About.com. The parts of this article that haven't been ripped in whole are very close paraphrases to the About.com content.

I will report this page as plagiarized, but I don't have time to rewrite it right now. Perhaps someone can take the lead here? I don't want to just delete it because I'm not sure what the Wikipedia policies are at the moment regarding things like this. --Galaxiana 06:46, 27 August 2007 (UTC)


 * The Page about.com uses all Wikipedia articles on their page and they have a partnership with Wikiepdia.org so its not likley to be copyright violation. You should probally see the talk page on the article on about.com at Talk:About.com to see what I am talking about.  Sawblade05  (talk to me undefined my wiki life) 14:54, 27 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Also if they are claiming copyright on it, please post about it here at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Abc#About.com  Sawblade05  (talk to me undefined my wiki life) 15:02, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Harry Wright's letter
I'm trying to track down Harry Wright's letter from 1869 because it is a primary source. I found it referenced here: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/7th_inning_stretch.shtml, but I want a copy of the letter and/or full original text. It is possible that the ownership of the original letter is in dispute. A collection of Harry Wright's letters were supposed to go up for auction, but they were taken off the list due to a claim from the New York Public Library. The NYPL claims that the collection of letters was originally in their possession and was subsequently stolen. See report from the AP here:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/06/harry-wright-baseball-let_n_226465.html. --Ethanhoffman (talk) 19:35, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Wrong information in Background
The article says that Harry Carry would sing in the broadcast booth with the Cubs, how ever this seems to imply that he only did it their in fact it would seem more important to say were he started it in terms of history which in fact was done with the White Sox (I believe). 131.230.146.135 (talk) 15:20, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

References as early as 1909
The article contends there is no recorded written reference to the seventh inning stretch before 1920. A quick search on Google Books shows several earlier references, such as this one from December 1917, and this one from 1909. Rupert Clayton (talk) 03:28, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

US-centric much?
This doesn't happen in Cuban baseball, and I'm not sure about other baseball-playing countries. 92.80.3.181 (talk) 21:25, 11 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I've modified the intro to reflect this. Mind  matrix  22:53, 11 February 2012 (UTC)