Best Baseball Song

[baseball_in_hel*]

Title is self-explanatory!

Vote for your favourite baseball song.


~~Tyler~~
~~Peace~~

[Bluesteve32]

Ceterfield by John Fogerty.

[PopTop]

Van Lingle Mungo, by Dave Frishberg

[imgreat95]

Baton Rouge, LA – During a recent interview with Spin magazine’s Nathan McCoy, Creedence Clearwater Revival founder/solo recording star John Fogerty revealed that nearly 18 years after the hit song’s release, he still holds out hope that someday a major league team will honor his longtime request to be centerfield.

Originally sung on his 1985 album, Centerfield, Fogerty once again attempted to convince Major League organizations that he would be an ideal choice to be the grassy part of the outfield that is commonly found between right and left field in most baseball stadiums.

"A-roundin' third and headed for home, it's a brown-eyed handsome man," said Fogerty, 58. "Anyone can understand the way I feel. Put me in Coach, I'm ready to play today…Look at me, I can be, centerfield."

When asked by McCoy whether he originally meant "play" centerfield rather than "be" centerfield – a request that would be just as outlandish, considering Fogerty’s complete lack of baseball experience or skill – Fogerty adamantly shook his head.

"So say Hey Willie, tell the Cobb, and Joe DiMaggio, don't say it ain't so, you know the time is now," Fogerty said. "Look at me, I can be centerfield."

Fearing that his interview was spiraling out of control, McCoy then suggested that perhaps Fogerty had originally mistyped the lyrics, or only felt the need to use the word "be" because it rhymed with "look at me," but really intended to say "play" centerfield.

This prompted the former CCR front man to fly into a violent rage.

"I can be centerfield! I can be centerfield!" screamed Fogerty as he hopped up and down on his front porch. "Grass, AstroTurf®, Nexturf®, it doesn’t matter – I can be centerfield!!"

Fogerty then promptly soiled himself, lost consciousness, and collapsed.

"Yeah, that was pretty bizarre," McCoy said later, after calling his editors and saying that the story was dead because Fogerty had become a "total wackjob."

"After all these years, this dude still thinks he can literally be an expansive area made entirely of grass, or turf, or whatever. And I still don’t know why he felt the need to say ‘The Cobb’ instead of just ‘Cobb.’"

McCoy added: "And when he started jumping up and down I realized he wasn’t wearing any pants. That was highly unsettling."

The interview will appear in the September 7 issue of Spin, as well as the September 12 issue of Utterly Asinine American Song Lyrics.

[whatswailing]

I'll go with "Talkin Baseball".

[Southlake CubsFan]

theres this song, but i cant remember, so i'll go with my next favorite, i'll even put the lyrics (part of the song has my own little add on)

take me out to the ball game
take me out to the crowd
by me some peanuts and cracker jacks
but do not by me a cardnial hat
for its root root for the CUBBIES if they dont win its a shame
for its 1, 2, 3, strikes your out at the ol ball game

LETS GO CUBBIES!!

[Bluesteve32]

take me out to the ball game
take me out to the crowd


Good old Harry Caray got that part wrong, the correct lyrics are "...take me out with the crowd...."

[sschirmer]

LMAO at that "Centerfield" post, and wow, a Van Lingo Mungo reference. That's good stuff. I'll go with the old big band tune "Jackie Robinson".

[64Cards]

I really liked Phil Rizzuto's play by play bit in the great Meatloaf song,"Paradise by the Dashboard Light" interesting use of baseball as a metaphor for scoring with your girlfriend in the car. :cool:

[Southlake CubsFan]

[QUOTE=Southlake CubsFan]
take me out to the ball game
take me out to the crowd
QUOTE]

Good old Harry Caray got that part wrong, the correct lyrics are "...take me out with the crowd...."
whoops my bad, but you guys get the point

[MasonDixon]

Terry Cashman- "Willie, Mickey and 'The Duke' (Talkin' Baseball)"

[moviegeekjan]

For nostalgia sake and the clips of the broadcasters (esp. Harry Caray), I'll go with "Talkin' Baseball"

[ballparks]

He started baseball's famous streak
That's got us all aglow
He's just a man and not a freak
Joltin' Joe DiMaggio

Joe, Joe DiMaggio
We want him on our side!




Hon. Mention to Simon and Garfunkel!!!!

[pesky6]

Being a Red Sox fan, I'm partial to the Dropkick Murphys' rendition of "Tessie". Not an all-time favorite--yet--but it's surely a current favorite.

Even though it's not a baseball song, I have to add "Dirty Water" by the Standells. It's played after every Boston victory at Fenway.

[tmorss9]

Pesky, I hated Tessie when it came out, but its one of those songs taht I find myself humming all the time. Actually, I have both versions of it on the CD of "Sox music" I burned, along with Dirty Water and Sweet Caroline, et al.

[Donnybrook @ Second base]

Meet the Mets

[lamearm]

.....What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson? Joltin' Joe has left and gone away...

[dgarza]

Dock Ellis by the S.F. Seals

[theAmazingMet]

I'll go with "Talkin Baseball".


100% agreed.
Willie, Micky and The Duke.
The old 45 had a picture of Casey Stengel peering into a crystal ball, Classic!

[Moliere]

I love all the titles posted. Here are some others I like:

"Rain Delay" by Marah (featuring the voice of the Phillies, Harry the K)

"Miami 2017" by Billy Joel (with the great line about sending an aircraft carrier to pick up the Yankees)

'I Love Mickey Mantle" by Theresa Brewer, featuring the Mick himself

[RegoRooter]

Ceterfield by John Fogerty.


Agreed. But there is some argument over the authenticity of Fogerty's lyric. I can remember when this song came out in the mid-eighties, Tim McCarver would point out that no player in real life would refer to his manager as 'coach' but rather as 'Skip.' Is that true?

[Bluesteve32]

McCarver was in pro baseball too long to remember that high school and college have coaches, not managers, which are often called skippers. I am sure that Fogerty was thinking back when he was a kid, and even though that Little League and Pony League do call them "Managers," kids of that age will most often call them "coach" and not "skipper" or "skip." Besides, "Coach" makes better lyrical sense, and skip just does not have that ring to the line.

It's better than movies and TV shows showing the ninth inning of HS baseball games, and it is not extra innings.

[tmorss9]

Every team I played on called the Manager "Coach". From Little league up to American Legion. McCarver seems to talk a bit too much when he has no Idea of what he's saying.

[POLO GROUNDS 1957]

My favorite baseball song is meet the mets which first was played in 1963 the mets last year at the historic polo grounds. 1963 was also the first year for the mets official mascot mr met. they would play the song before every mets game on the radio which i have alot of 1962 and 1963 mets games on audio.the song was also played at the polo grounds. :clapping

[Bluesteve32]

Every team I played on called the Manager "Coach". From Little league up to American Legion. McCarver seems to talk a bit too much when he has no Idea of what he's saying.

In pro ball, you would never call the manager coach, but skip or skipper. It is a matter of delineation. Often times, umpires (or officials in any sport, when not actually addressing them by their first name) adress them as coaches, but managers would often take exception to that, because he is a "skipper."

[Yankeebiscuitfan]

My favorite is "Boys of Summer" by Don Henley.

Take me out to the ball game is close behind that one.

[Baseball4us23]

I also loved to hear that song played and know all the words by heart..... does anybody know were I can get an mp3 of the song??????

[StanTheMan]

In a Pennsylvania town in 1921
To a Miller and his wife
one day was born a son

Stanley F Musial
Swingin Stan The Man
He's the man that thrills the fans
Swingin Stan the Man

[ColbyPants]

Being a Red Sox fan, I'm partial to the Dropkick Murphys' rendition of "Tessie". Not an all-time favorite--yet--but it's surely a current favorite.

Even though it's not a baseball song, I have to add "Dirty Water" by the Standells. It's played after every Boston victory at Fenway.

I love the DKM Tessie, really gets me revved up. Dirty Water works too, just no more Sweet Caroline. ever. PLEASE!

TomC

[Rennie Stennett]

Every team I played on called the Manager "Coach". From Little league up to American Legion. McCarver seems to talk a bit too much when he has no Idea of what he's saying.

I still call him coach some thirty years later.

MY VOTE: "Ichiro" by Dave Ross.

link to link. I couldn't copy 1st link and make it work.

http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=54739

[milladrive]

Though there are many, my favorite baseball song is easily "Take Me Out To The Ball Game."

And for anyone who cares, the song was recorded for the first time 99 years ago today, 9/9/1908, by the Haydn Quartet vocal group. It was easily the most popular song of the year.

[kearns643]

The beauty about baseball music its as diverse as the players themselves.
There are many types of players as well as baseball songs...

Here is a link to a thread I started:

http://baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=45269

So, like the players, I admire players like Justin Pedroia (he just gets in done) and the same with Terry Cashman and Chuck Brodsky...both whom are all over the place on the thread.

But being of Red Sox blood, my favorite is "Losing" by Pondering Judd (sans 2004) page 34 and Tim McGraw's "Live like you were Dying" about his dad Tug...

Thanks for asking

[milladrive]

Here is a link to a thread I started:

http://baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=45269

Somehow, I knew that thread was there but had misplaced it. :o

[TRfromBR]

Though there are many, my favorite baseball song is easily "Take Me Out To The Ball Game."

And for anyone who cares, the song was recorded for the first time 99 years ago today, 9/9/1908, by the Haydn Quartet vocal group. It was easily the most popular song of the year.

I care, and I concur, Millidrive. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is the greatest of all Baseball songs. They'll be playing it in another 99 years, too ... unless, of course, the long underrated "Batterin' Babe" overtakes it in the interim.

[Meely]

Centerfield - Fogerty
Talkin Baseball - Terry Cashman

[Urbanshocker13]

Being a Red Sox fan, I'm partial to the Dropkick Murphys' rendition of "Tessie". Not an all-time favorite--yet--but it's surely a current favorite.

Even though it's not a baseball song, I have to add "Dirty Water" by the Standells. It's played after every Boston victory at Fenway.

This is the last place I thought I would read anything about the Dropkick Murphys! I use to love them when the old singer Mike McColgan and they where more like Oi! than how they are now more ballady with Al Barr. I like Al Barr, and I loved the Bruisers but I not that crazy about him in the Dropkick Murphys.

When I was a teenager when they came out, I thought they where almost perfect, They where Irish, mixed Irish music with Oi! They where really good.....Too bad they are from Boston :happy: J/k I actually love Boston I have been there tons of times, I saw the Dropkick Murphys in Boston, one of the many times I have seen them.(just not crazy about there baseball team) The DKM's Ballad stuff gets to be a bit much now.

That Tessie song, is that why all those dumb kids where wearing DKM's & Irish stuff when I went to a yankee redsox game? I get the whole Boston DKM thing and I know Boston is one of the biggest Irish cities, but being a redsox fan and being Irish and into Street Punk isn't necessary the same thing. I am the biggest most Irish looking MF there is (my mom from there) I also love Oi! music and I am an unrepented Yankee fan! :) Anyway that song Tessie is pretty good! It some of the "newer" DKM stuff I like!

[Floyd Butterball]

Take Me Out to the Ballgame, an American anthem. I've always been partial to Talkin' Baseball, Terry Cashman. My ten year old kid bought a baseball video a couple months ago at a thrift store and it had Talkin Baseball on it and he still walks around the house every day singing the song. He had me give him a history course on all the players mentioned. I enjoyed it.

[Utter Chaos]

Gotta be "Go Joe Charboneau" by Section 54.


Who's the newest guy in town?
Go Joe Charboneau.
Turns the ballpark upside down.
Go Joe Charboneau.
Who's the one to keep our hopes alive,
straight from seventh to the pennant drive?
Raise your glass, let out a cheer
for Cleveland's Rookie of the Year!
....

[spark240]

I have a lot of baseball tunes in the collection... essential for road trips to games (I also have audio versions of some baseball books)... but my current, new favorite is Chuck Brodsky's "The Curse of the Billy Goat (http://www.chuckbrodsky.com/clips/CurseOfTheBillyGoatClip_mp3.mp3)." That's just a clip... it goes on to talk about '69, '84, '03...

[BoweryBoys]

I have to admit I am prejudiced in favor of this song though because my wife's parents, Dick and Shirley Winslow, wrote it in 1966 to honor the opening of Anaheim Stadium. (Shameless plug for the memory of my late father-in-law character actor musician and composer Dick Winslow).

California Angels A-Okay
California Angels All The Way

Here them shout that you're the best
Clear throughout the golden west
See them play
Night and day
Keep the crowds in the clouds

California Angels win that game
California Angels win that fame

Everybody blow your horn
With a halo we adorn
The California Angels team!

Something like that, I don't remember exactly but my wife has the sheet music, with Dick on the cover in the Angel's uniform playing his one-man-band, lying around here someplace.

[BoweryBoys]

California Angels "A-OK"
(Official fight song of the California Angels)
Lyrics by Shirley and Dick Winslow
Music by Dick Winslow (ASCAP)

California Angels A OK!!
California Angels all the way!!
Hear them shout that you're the best
Clear throughout "The Golden West"
Watch `em play night and day. Keep the crowds in the clouds.
California Angels win that game!!
California Angels win that fame!!
Ev'rybody blow your horn! With a halo we adorn the California Angels Team.

Short or tall; large or small; Welcome any time!
Have a ball one and all, come to Anaheim!!
Cheer!! Cheer!! Let them know we're here!!

California Angels A OK!!
Hear them shout that you're the best
Clear throughout "The Golden West"
Watch `em play night and day. Keep the crowds in the clouds.
California Angels win that game!!
California Angels win that fame!!
Ev'rybody blow your horn! With a halo we adorn the California Angels Team.

(copyright 1966 Walt Disney Music Co., Burbank, Cal.)

[CPatt44]

Another vote for "centerfield" by John Fogerty.

[PhenomJoba]

I love "Centerfield." My dad would play that all the time on the way to Spring Training games.

[NightHawks2007]

Fogerty's "Centerfield" takes the cake.
Being a Red Sox fan, and loving Dropkick, "Tessie" is a close second.