Baseball songs

I don't care who reads this (and I mean you, coach!) - 0ur HS has the worst music of any field in our district. If I hear "Sister Golden Hair" one more time I'm going to kill myself.

Ever since I saw "Mr. 3000," I haven't been able to get "Shining Star" (Earth, Wind & Fire) out of my head.

"Elevation" (U2) to me is a good post-HR song.

There's a part in "Love Shack" (B-52's) that I always thought would be good for a hitter coming up to bat with baserunners ("knock-knock on the door, baby!")

Also always thought Lynyrd Skynyrd's version of "Honky Tonk Nighttime Man" would be a good infield-outfield warmup song for an evening home game. "I get my rest in the daytime, do my runnin' round at night."

"Sweet Caroline"

"Centerfield"

"Cheap Seats"

"Swing"

"Doh!" Homer Simpson clip for like after an error or something

"Boring" Home Simpson for pitcher throwing over

We play "welcome to the jungle" during warmups.

Auburn plays several interesting songs during the game, such as "these boots are made for walking" after a base on balls and "going, going, gone after an Auburn homerun.

While not an "in-game" kind of song, Kenny Rogers' "The Greatest" is a must-hear for anyone with ball players.

While void of pre-invested emotional pop value, I stashed the following list in my favorites file for this exact moment, since late last summer:

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/03/10-best-baseball-songs.html

For an interesting delivery of non-commercial hardball rock, I recommend an ear scan of:

Vol. 1 Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails. (I have always been a Big Ed Delahanty fan.)

Short review available here:

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=Vol.+1:+Frozen...071024364#ps-sellers

If a drunken fan tumbles out onto the field and runs around like a madman, you could play no better song than "Happy Little Boozer" by the Finnish folk-metal band Korpiklaani.

Hopefully you don't have such fans, but for those who like metal but are tired of the same-old-smae-old, I recommend Korpiklaani's "Old Tale" and Ensiferum's "Into Battle". Northern Europe is doing wonderful things within the genre.

Oh, you could play AC/DC's "Walk All Over You" when the other team walks two or more in a row.

Counting Crows, "Omaha" for the ultimate college goal.

Or Pirate flashbacks of "We are Family..."

My favorite is "Glory Days" by Springsteen.

Great stuff keep it coming. I am def. adding some of these.

Haverdad.....good list.

I am at a smaller school and will have to come up with the play list. At one of the larger schools I coached, we had kids from the media dept. working the PA and they came up with some great ones. One of the best was the "Soup Nazi" yelling "No Soup For You!!!"

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Originally posted by 2Bmom:
If I hear "Sister Golden Hair" one more time I'm going to kill myself.

What the heck would possess someone to play this song during a baseball game? Maybe they're trying to put the other team to sleep?

regarding sister golden hair, I remember being on vacation in miami beach around 1975-76, and I played this on the guitar amongst a group of teenagers (I was 15 or 16). Needless to say, the pretty blonde girl ate it up and we were making out on the beach under the moon later in the evening.

one of those songs that INSTANTLY takes you back to a specific moment long ago... at least for me!

ahhh, memories..

"Another Saturday Comes And Goes" Phil Coley
"Back Home In Omaha" Todd Thibaud
"The Bug" Mary Chapin Carpenter
"Cobra Style" Teddybears Stockholm
"Dirty Water" The Standells...or better yet, covered by Bronson Arroyo or the Dropkick Murphys
"The Fireman" George Strait
"Gasolina" Daddy Yankee
"Green Onions" Booker T & The MGs
"Gone" Montgomery Gentry
"Jerk It Out" The Caesars
"Keep On Swinging" Brooks & Dunn
"Load Up The Bases, Red Sox" Whiskey Falls
"Merry Merry Merry Frickin' Christmas" Frickin A
"Moonshot Manny" Joe Pernice & Jose Ayerve
"(Ready Or Not) Omaha Nebraska" Bowling For Soup
"Swing" Trace Adkins
"Swing It" Brooks & Dunn
"Tessie" Royal Rooters or The Dropkick Murphys

"Lets get it started" - Black Eyed Peas

My recent favorite....

Tessie, but only by the "DropKick Murphys"

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What the heck would possess someone to play this song during a baseball game? Maybe they're trying to put the other team to sleep?

Tell me about it! I keep waiting for that other stupid song about the horse with no name. goMo, that is what that song is for - not a baseball game!

They also play that country song about "I played chicken with a train." The worst in the district, I'm tellin' ya.

"No soup for you!" I like that!

"Beautiful Game" by Udora. It was the song from the CWS a few years ago.