Songs About Ballplayers

[Theoldmole]

Off the top of my head? What others?

Joltin' Joe DiMaggio
Dominic DiMaggio
Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?
Say Hey - The Willie Mays Song
Willie, Mickey and the Duke
Mrs. Robinson

[Guest sharpie]

Bob Dylan's "Catfish" about Catfish Hunter.

[Guest sharpie]

Billy Bragg and Wilco's ``Joe DiMaggio Done It Again,"
``The Wizard of Oz" by bluegrass artist Sam Bush, honoring shortstop Ozzie Smith
``Newk's Fadeaway" by Sonny Rollins.


These 3 were played on the Bob Dylan baseball song radio show (not that I heard it).

[metirish]

I just did a quick search and found this goofy site...

http://chicoescuela1.tripod.com/Index.htm

[Theoldmole]

Bill Lee, by Warren Zevon

[Guest Edgy DC]

"Walter Johnson" by Jonathan Richman.

I can't see why not to bump this to the Baseball Forum.

irish, I'm putting this on you and you alone to recruit Mr. Tripod Site.

[Guest Edgy DC]

"Slide, Kelly, Slide!"

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]Rounding third and heading for home is a brown-eyed handsome man

Now, I've heard that Fogarty was describing Dale Murphy here in "Centerfield"; but that was before I'd realized he'd swiped this line from Chuck Berry, who apparently was slyly writing about attractive black men -- Robinson, I suppose for the time.

[Theoldmole]

Van Lingle Mungo by Dave Frishberg

[Theoldmole]

I wasn't sure which forum to post it to. Bump to baseball is fine with me.

[seawolf17]

Edgy DC wrote: irish, I'm putting this on you and you alone to recruit Mr. Tripod Site.

Why, so he can win the Song Parody Contest every year? I think NOT!

[stevejrogers]

Some alt-grunge group did a song tribute to Jose Oquendo that the Sklar Brothers (of ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats) used as motivation to get Oquendo into Cooperstown!

Can't seem to find the song or the lyrics though

[Theoldmole]

There's this one. reprinted from Baseball Almanac:

]Murgatroyd Darcy, the belle of Carnarsie, Went 'round with a fellow named Rodge. At dancing the rhumba or jitterbug number, You couldn't beat Rodge at this dodge. Throughout the cold weather, the pair danced together, But when the trees blossomed again, Miss Murgatroyd Darcy, the belle of Carnarsie To Rodgers would sing this refrain: Leave us go root for the Dodgers, Rodgers. That's the team for me. Leave us make noise for the boisterous boys on the BMT. Summer or winter or any season, Flatbush fanatics don't need no reason. Leave us go root for the Dodgers, Rodgers. That's the team for me.

Which, one would think, would not count, because it doesn;t name a player. But I remember another verse, or part of it:

Let us go root for the Dodgers,
Rodgers,
They're playing out under the lights
...
All of this dancing and prancing is silly,
When we could be rooting for Adolph Camilli,
Let us go root for the Dodgers,
Rodgers,
Them Dodgers is my gallant knights.

[Willets Point]

Sammy Sosa, I'm in Love with Baseball Now

[Frayed Knot]

Keith Moreland is mentioned in Steve Goodman's 'A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request' - although the song isn't specifically about him.

[G-Fafif]

"We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel -- a shoutout to Mickey Mantle. Because he was hardly ever mentioned at all.

"Under the Street Lamp" by Joe Bataan -- uses Willie Mays as an example of a young man made good.

Ernie Harwell recorded a Hank Aaron tribute, an actual song, circa 1974.

In "Fever Pitch," when Jimmy Fallon is overwrought and watching the Mookie/Buckner play over and over again, he is playing an old record whose refrain is "CARL Yastrzemski...CARL Yastrzemsik."

In "Heroes" by Jill Sobule, she mentions the failings of many great public figures, including Babe Ruth (and his predilection for prostitutes).

And of course, "Get Metsmerized" and "Our Team, Our Town" namecheck like crazy.

[Gwreck]

G-Fafif wrote: And of course, "Get Metsmerized" and "Our Team, Our Town" namecheck like crazy.

Not to mention "Who Let the Mets Out?"

[Guest Edgy DC]