What is the seventh shift section?
The seventh shift section is a tradition in the American baseball. The audience stands up and stretches the muscles between half of the seventh shift and usually sing "take me for a ball game". The break also gives players some time to relax and in many stadiums this is the last chance that readers will buy alcoholic beverages. Some baseball teams have their own seventh shift traditions, which often consist of a song sung except "Take me to the ball game". Nobody knows exactly how it started, but the practice very similar to the modern seventh exchange was documented in a letter from 1869, in the same year, when the first professional baseball team Cincinnati Red stockings was created. No matter how the tradition began, cost, and a little exercise was the top situated on hard wooden seats for two hours, and the thought quickly caught up.
"Take me to the ball game" became incorporated into the stopávky During the 70s, when the famous Harry Caray baseball announcer began singing the song through the air during his work with Chicago White Sox. When he joined Chicago Cubs in 1981, Carament continued in practice and his nationwide popularity led to the fans of all teams to accept tradition. Today, the chicks invite guest celebrities to lead their crowd in the song, like Caray.
Many Major League baseball teams will earn seventh shifts stretching by playing a song with a special meaning for the home team after "Take me for a ball game". For example, Milwaukee breweries play "Beer Barrel Polka" and Houston Texans play "Deep in Heart of Texas". After September 11, Terrorist attacks on the New York World Trade Center have become popular to sing during the break, either except "instead of" take me for the ball "during the break.