If you want to boost morale, consider inviting your team out for a ball game. Buy them some peanuts and Cracker Jacks if you can. Enjoy the 7th inning stretch together singing the 102 year old song together (see words below).
Before, during or after the game, feel free to share some of the trivia tidbits below (about the song and Cracker Jacks) if you’d like. Plus the Babe Ruth tidbits from our Quote of the Week.
Don’t have time for all this nonsense?
I know. I understand the feeling. But if you do take time for it. If you do allow yourself and everyone else to enjoy it, the benefits can far outweigh the cost (of time and money). One of the biggest potential benefits: providing common experience, opening the door for easier conversations in the future about strike outs and the importance of swinging for the fences.
A few facts from the official Cracker Jack site
1893: According to legend, a unique popcorn, peanuts and molasses confection that was the forerunner to the current Cracker Jack product was introduced by F.W. Rueckheim and Brother at the Chicago’s first World’s Fair.
1896: Louis Rueckheim, F.W.’s brother and partner, discovered the process for keeping the molasses-covered popcorn morsels from sticking together. Louis gives the treat to a salesman who exclaimed, “That’s crackerjack!” “So it is,” says F.W. Rueckheim, who then has the words trademarked.
1908 Jack Norworth wrote the song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during a 30-minute subway ride. Albert Von Tilzer,later composed the music. The Cracker Jack brand was immortalized with the third line, “Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack.”
There were several verses to the song, but here’s the part normally sung by the crowd during the 7th inning stretch at baseball games everywhere:
“Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don’t care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don’t win it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out,
At the old ball game.”
copyright 2010 – Business Class Inc
Other Resources to Help You and Your Team Keep Swinging
- Quote of the Week: Keep swinging!
- Monday Matinée – The Babe & Baby Ruths
- Quick List: 10 Business Failures
- Quick List: 10 Famous Fools
- Tuesday Matinée – Famous Fools
- Brainteaser of the Week #23
- Mid-week Matinée – Michael Jordan’s “Failures”
- Playing an unfair game?
- Thursday Matinée – Knock the cover off!
- Eat sunflower seeds?
- Does your company have a baseball or softball team?
- Mick Mixon’s Homer at Texaco
- Movie of the Week – The Natural
- It Ain’t Over
