![]() The 1917 baseball season began five days after the United States entered World War I. So how did the song even come to be played before every game? "It is interesting that a song that is so frequently sung - and so frequently sung badly - has not aroused more protest against its very existence." "I think it is a terrible song," Thorn says. He has strong feelings about the "Star-Spangled Banner." John Thorn is the Official Historian for Major League Baseball. ![]() But did he see how widespread the song would be two centuries later? (AP) This article is more than 4 years old. Francis Scott Key saw the American flag flying over Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor during the War of 1812.
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