Looking for some good baseball songs

[joncarlos]

Trying to make a baseball playlist on Spotify. I've really got nothing.

Centerfield is clearly #1. The Mike Trout of baseball songs.

Right now I've got Glory Days (Springsteen) #2?

Not going to count Take Me Out to The Ballgame or Talking Baseball or anything else from the 50s. Not counting Dropkick Murphys (boo Red Sox) or whatever that Alabama song is (because it's awful).

The Root Root Root for Our Home Team song the Pirates had was pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKJx...t=HL1396280623

And of course New York, New York, and Paradise By The Dashboard Light since it got Phil Rizzuto a Grammy.

Meet the Mets? Step right up and beat the Mets?

What do you got?

[joncarlos]

Oh, I forgot All The Way (Eddie Vedder). Might be #3 on my list, but not on Spotify.

http://youtu.be/ixG_Qw4B_sc

[Pogues]

Tessie by the Dropkick Murphys. I don't know if it still is, but it was a theme song for the Red Sox a few years back. My wife asked for baseball songs about 4 months ago, and I couldn't come up with much.

You could use Wild Thing...it was good enough for Ricky Vaughn.

EDITL Oh...I should read your entire post. Screw you in not liking Dropkick Murphys.

[mjl]

It probably won't mean anything unless you watched Cubs games on WGN in the 80s, but the Cubs used Jump by Van Halen at the beginning of each game for a long time. I have vivid childhood memories of coming home in 1984 and my mom watching the Cubs game on the tv in the kitchen and hearing that song.

also from that era: "Go Cubs Go" and "A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request" by Steve Goodman. "Go Cubs Go" was the lead-in on the radio for a long time.

also the "na na na na hey hey hey goodbye" song that they played at White Sox games back then.

I'm just going to keep editing this post until I stop having memories.

[swampdragon]

Here is a solid baseball song - you might not know it - you old guys don't listen to rap - but it really is baseball centric
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvNQWQSwmow

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis - My, Oh, My

[joncarlos]

Yeah it's tough to say what's really a 'baseball song' if it's not specifically about baseball. Enter Sandman would be pretty high on my personal list. And so would Shane Victorino's song even though he plays for the Red Sox (Three Little Birds, aka Every Little Thing is Gonna Be Alright).

[johnnya24]

I always wondered who the pitcher was in verse 4/5. Most people say Sandy Koufax. Who else could it have been around 2003?

"The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day
The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays
He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor
He knows the drink affects his speed, he's praying for a doorway
Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench
Life outside the diamond is a wrench"

[BuckyBuckner]

Here is a band that only writes songs about baseball, with Peter Buck. http://thebaseballproject.net/

[mjl]

I always wondered who the pitcher was in verse 4/5. Most people say Sandy Koufax. Who else could it have been around 2003?

"The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day
The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays
He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor
He knows the drink affects his speed, he's praying for a doorway
Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench
Life outside the diamond is a wrench"

well, I don't know offhand, but Koufax probably wasn't going into a lot of cathedrals if you're reading it literally...

[johnnya24]

Here is a band that only writes songs about baseball, with Peter Buck. http://thebaseballproject.net/

Damn ... Mike Mills on bass, and honoury 4th/5th REM'er Scott McCaughey.

[johnnya24]

well, I don't know offhand, but Koufax probably wasn't going into a lot of cathedrals if you're reading it literally...

I don't think it is Koufax, which is why it always interested me. It would have probably come from a story or anecdote that Stuart Murdoch read or overheard ... much like the Piazza references.

Also ... how did I miss the Millie Ways pun ...

"San Francisco's calling us, the Giants and Mets will play
Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?
We hung about the stadium, we've got no place to stay
We hung about the Tenderloin and tenderly you tell
About the saddest book you ever read, it always makes you cry
The statue's crying too and well he may"

[rhd]

"Van Lingle Mungo" by Dave Frishberg is a classic that should be on every baseball song list.
"There Used to be a Ballpark Here" by Frank Sinatra is another poignant classic.

[Gregg]

All The Way-Eddie Veddor-2007

Don’t let anyone say that it’s just a game.
For I’ve seen other teams and it’s never the same
When you’re born in Chicago, you’re blessed and you’re healed
First time you walk into Wrigley Field

Our heroes wear pinstripes; heroes in blue
They give us the chance to feel like heroes too
Whether we’ll win, and if we should lose
We know someday we’ll go all the way
Yeah! Someday we’ll go all the way

Cheap Seats-Alabama-1993

This town ain't big
this town ain't small
It's a little of both they say
Our ball club may be minor league
but at least it's Triple-A

We sit below the Marlboro man
Above the right field wall
We do the wave all by ourself
Hey ump, a blind man could've made that call

Catfish-Bob Dylan-1991

Lazy stadium night
Catfish on the mound
“Strike three,” the umpire said
Batter have to go back and sit down

Catfish, million-dollar-man
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can
Used to work on Mr. Finley’s farm
But the old man wouldn’t pay
So he packed his glove and took his arm
An’ one day he just ran away

[Gregg]

The Greatest-Kenny Rodgers-1998

Little boy, he adjusts his hat
Picks up his ball, stares at his bat
Says I am the greatest, the game is on the line
And he gives his all one last time

And the ball goes up like the moon so bright
Swings his bat with all his might
And the world's so still as still can be
And the baseball falls, and that's strike three

Now it's supper time and his mama calls
Little boy starts home with his bat and ball
Says I am the greatest, that is a fact
But even I didn't know I could pitch like that

[revo]

How about a couple by Billy Joel?

'Zanzibar'
Rose, he knows he's such a credit to the game
But the Yankees grab the headline every time
Melodrama's so much fun
In black and white for everyone to see
Me, I'm trying just to get to second base
And I'd steal it if she only gave the sign
She's gonna give the go ahead
The inning isn't over yet for me


'Miami 2017'
I've seen the lights go out on Broadway
I've watched the mighty skyline fall
The boats were waiting at the battery
The union went on strike
They never sailed at all
They sent a carrier out from Norfolk
And picked the Yankees up for free
They said that Queens could stay
They blew the Bronx away
And sank Manhattan out at sea