“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.”
Albert von Tilzer and Jack Norworth are the creators of the famed, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” that is played during every seventh inning stretch in every professional baseball game across the United States.
The Tennessee Smokies will still sing that song though they may have to migrate to a new home. Randy Boyd, President of the University of Tennessee Knoxville and current owner of the Smokies, seeks to relocate the team from Kodak, TN to East Knoxville.
The Tennessee Smokies are the Double-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs.
In order for the Stadium to be built, it still has to be approved by the city, the taxpayers must fund the stadium, and the location has to be prepped.
The graffiti written walls and structures will have to be demolished, but that sounds like construction.
The majority of the land owned by Boyd is in East Knoxville, where the rail yard used to be. Who knows if and when the new stadium happens?
According to Kevin Costner, “If you build it, they will come”
Brandon Shown 