The song was first played at a sporting event during the seventh-inning stretch of the 1918 World Series and became a tradition immediately afterward. Fort Mead, S.D., claims that it was them who came up with the idea it be the national anthem, however, in a plaque that dates 1892. The order called for the tune to be played at the raising of the flag. It was first recognized for official use by the United States Navy on July 27, 1889, when Secretary of the Navy Benjamin F.
It would take 117 years before it would officially become the national anthem.
Nicholson saw that it would fit perfectly to the music of an old English song, "To Anacreon in Heaven." It was here that Key's brother-in-law, Judge Joseph H. The poem circulated as a hand-bill for awhile before it was published under the title, "Star Spangled Banner" in a Baltimore newspaper, "American and Commercial Daily Advertiser" on Sept.
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