Sweet Caroline | High School Baseball Web

TPMHSBaseballweb Member since 2003

Does anyone know the meaning behind the tradition of playing this song at Sox games?

And what other teams (pro and college) do the same.

If memory serves me correctly

, doesn't FSU play this song at baseball games?

12/24/072:50 PM

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TRhit10,000+ posts

Arent the Sox in KENNEDY Land???

12/24/074:12 PM

RJMHSBaseballWeb member since 2007

I think it was just a between innings song to start. It's been a very popular karaoke bar song. Then in 2004 "good times never felt so good" and the song became a staple.

It beats 86 years of a line from another popular karaoke song ... "Why do you build me up, Buttercup baby, just to let me down ..." Talk about a lifelong Sox anthem until four years ago!

12/24/074:20 PM

baseballmom

Diamond wrote the song for/about Caroline Kennedy. Red Sox + Kennedys = a great hit for Diamond. "pun"?

12/24/076:51 PM

justbaseball10,000+ posts

I've heard it at UCLA and Stanford. My youngest daughter is named Caroline and her older brother arranged for it to be played at UCLA on her birthday two years ago with a scoreboard birthday wish to boot. She was floating on cloud-9.

12/24/079:52 PM

BigRed10+ posts

Apparently it is pretty popuplar:

Ole Miss: Ole Miss Baseball

Ole Miss 2: Ole Miss Baseball 2

Red Sox: Fenway Park

Neil Diamond : Neil's inspiration

12/25/0710:15 PM

redbird510,000+ posts

Too funny, TPM! I just asked this question yesterday to my Red Sox GF.

12/26/0710:25 AM

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