Example Welcome Address

Baseball is the hymn of the United States

Star Spangled Banner is the official national anthem since 1931.
Before the United States had not one, the president Woodrow Wilson advocated the current anthem in 1916, with the urgency dictated by the American participation in the First World War. The approval had not been made, but the reason was always performed in patriotic demonstrations.
The moment had finally come Star Spangled Banner in the hearts of proud Americans was during the 7th inning stretch of Game 3 of World Series in 1918.
That year the Classic was held in October to the beginning of September the regular season was abruptly interrupted, because a recreational activity could not steal any resource to the war effort of the nation, was given the dispute of the final series between Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox, but a portion of the proceeds generated by the event would finance military activity, and finally on the move were to be reduced to a minimum, with the first three games in Chicago and the next four in Boston.
entry into the war, the players - those not reached by calling - began to receive military training during pre-game: Viewers could watch them marching on the field, shouldering the bat like a gun.
Thus, during the pause in mid-seventh inning, when the band struck up unexpectedly Star Spangled Banner, the athletes of both teams turned to the flag hoisted outside the center and one of them gave her the salute from the ramparts and the flow natural first verses of the hymn.
The owner Harry Frazee of the Red Sox he arranged the execution at the start of each successive races in Boston: the combination between the motive and the sport was born, thirteen years before elevation to the official national anthem.

Star Spangled Banner 

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,

Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,

In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:

'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion

A home and a country should leave us no more?

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever when freemen shall stand

Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!

Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: "In God is our Trust."

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!