10 Best Baseball Songs

Have you heard any of the the ten volumes of baseball songs produced by Hungry for Music entitled DIAMOND CUTS? You most likely will change your list. Los Straitjackets performing Take Me Out to the Ball Game and much much more...beats the Rhino collection by far...

um. how can you leave of anything by BARBARA MANNING and her SF SEALS? They have an EP called THE BASEBALL TRILOGY and it's indie-rock-ilious!

Dan Bern has a ton of 'em ... some included in the Diamond Cuts Series.

Glory Days by the Boss.

Joe Dimaggio's Done It Again - Woody Guthrie/Wilco

Amen to Steve Goodman. I play that song every fall when the Cubs - well, you know, blow it.

Talkin' Softball by Terry Cashman from the Simpsons episode "Homer at the bat".

The song will get stuck in your head for days.

Eddie Vedder's "All The Way" should be in this list. Best Cubs song ever!

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.

We are one with the Cubs, with the Cubs we're in love.

Yeah, hold our head high as the underdogs.

We are not fair weather but foul weather fans!

We're like brothers in arms in the streets and the stands.

There's magic in the ivy and the old scoreboard.

The same one I stared at as a kid keeping score.

In a world full of greed I could never want more.

Someday we'll go all the way.

Yeah! Someday we'll go all the way.

Yeah, someday we'll go all the way.

Yeah! Someday we'll go all the way.

Someday we'll go all the way!

And here's to the men and the legends we've known.

Teaching us faith and giving us hope.

United we stand and united we'll fall,
Down to our knees the day we win it all.

Yeah, Ernie Banks said, "Oh let's play two."

Or did he mean 200 years?

In the same ballpark, our diamond, our jewel.

The home of our joy and our tears.

Keeping traditions and wishes made new.

The place where our grandfathers' fathers they grew.

A spiritual feeling if I ever knew.

And if you ain't been I am sorry for you.

And when the day comes, when that last winning run,

And I'm crying and covered in beer.

I'll look to the sky and know I was right.

To think someday we'll go all the way,

Yeah! Someday we'll go all the way.

Yeah, someday we'll go all the way.

Yeah! Someday we'll go all the way.

Yeah, someday we'll go all the way.

Yeah! Someday we'll go all the way.

Oh, someday we'll go all the way.

Yeah! Someday we'll go all the way.

Someday we'll go all the way.

Don't forget America's Favorite Pastime by Todd Snider:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sugCwMxwPRk

"The Baseball Song" by Tim Flannery, (former major leaguer and current coach of the S.F. Giants).

What about "Green Onions" by Booker T. and the MGs? Come on guys! We're talking the anthem of baseball!

How about "Cheap Seats" -Alabama

What about Meatloaf's Paridise by the Dashboard Light? Talk about scoring... :-)

A great collabaration between Mr. Phil Rizzuto, Miss Ellen Foley and Mr. Loaf!

Agreed with Meat Loaf's "Paradise"

Also, Kenny Rogers' "The Greatest"

I think you have the wrong Jonathan Richman song here. The Fenway only briefly mentions baseball and is more about the area of Boston than Fenway Park. However, you DO want Richman's "Walter Johnson" on your list.

I hope you detect no bitterness in this comment.

Nothing from last year's Baseball Project album? I'd nominate "Pastime" and "Ted F**king Williams".

For those Christians who are into baseball, there's "Home Run" by Geoff Moore and the Distance.

Okay, I know it's older AND a ballad, but how could you leave Phoebe Snow/Dave Grusin's "Somewhere Between Old and New York" off even the Honorable Mention list?!? The imagery in its lyrics is fantastic!! (And check out the video someone put together for it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfd6tN3Dwjs).

Sorry - that youtube link above should be minus the ). at the end for it to work properly (i.e., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfd6tN3Dwjs ).

Centerfield - did someone overlook the most famous baseball song of all time?

You forgot Chuck Brodsky's songs. He has a whole cd of songs about baseball called "The Baseball Ballads." One song is called The Ballad of Eddie Klepp. And one song about Moe Berg. For those of you who haven't discovered Chuck Brodsky, he's in the tradition of Bob Dylan. A great songwriter. Look him up. You won't be disappointed.

Van Lingo Mungo

I used to pitch in college and really liked the song "The Closer" by Damon Carr...