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In the middle of the seventh inning, you slowly stand up for the ancient ritual known as the seventh-inning stretch, yet suddenly find yourself in a combination church meeting and July Fourth celebration.
News - latimes.com 2011
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During the seventh-inning stretch, a moment typically reserved for "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," another song played at parks around the country: "God Bless America."
Baseball And 'God Bless America,' 10 Years Later (VIDEOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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In a meeting to discuss how baseball should resume after the terror attacks, San Diego Padres assistant media relations director, John Dever, suggests singing God Bless America during the seventh-inning stretch, instead of the traditional Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
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Near the end of the game, about the seventh-inning stretch as folks started to head out, a mom and her daughter came down and sat in the row in front of us, just to our left.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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It's all on the calendar.9/12 7th-inning stretchA new seventh-inning tradition is born.
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And everything after the fact so foreknown, the game itself sometimes already in the past while he still described it; often the afternoon papers were on the streets with the final box score while he described for his listeners the seventh-inning stretch or reported a struggle in the box seats over the recovery of a foul ball -- his foreknowledge hindsight, a coy tool of suspense: DiMaggio swings.
Style in Fiction 2009
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His seventh-inning home run Sunday woke up the offense in time for the Yankees to rally for a 4-1 victory in Game 3, wiping out a 1-0 deficit against former Yankees pitcher Carl Pavano.
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In a meeting to discuss how baseball should resume after the terror attacks, San Diego Padres assistant media relations director, John Dever, suggests singing God Bless America during the seventh-inning stretch, instead of the traditional Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
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Craig Stammen got his first win and hit in more than a year, scoring the go-ahead run on Ryan Zimmerman's seventh-inning single to lead the Washington Nationals over the New York Mets 3-2 Tuesday night before another sparse crowd at Citi Field.
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It's all on the calendar.9/12 7th-inning stretchA new seventh-inning tradition is born.
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