Here's what was on the "baseball songs" playlist on Jim's iPod, listened to during the Baseball-Related Program Activities trip. If your browser's working right, spoken-word recordings are in red; radio jingles and such are in green. Click on the "Audio" link next to some of the jingles to hear them.
And now you can easily buy many of the songs through iTunes! Just click any of the linked songs below.
Special Bonus: An audio excerpt from Jim and Levi's appearance with Maura on WPRB! (Caution: This is a fairly large MP3 -- over 8 MB.)
Song | Artist | Album/Notes |
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(Love Is Like a) Baseball Game | The Intruders | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request | Steve Goodman | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
ABC Monday Night Baseball | TV theme | |
All Hail to the Fighting Cardinals (Audio) | KWK | Radio station jingle |
America's Great National Pastime | The Byrds | Farther Along |
Ballad of a Ballgame | Christine Lavin | Beau Woes and Other Problems |
Baseball | Michael Franks | The Best of Michael Franks: A Backwards Glance |
Baseball Blues | Claire Hamill | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
Baseball Card Lover | Rockin' Ritchie Ray | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
Baseball Dreams | The Naturals with Mel Allen | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
Baseball on the Block | John McCutcheon | Family Garden |
Baseball Theme | Vince Guaraldi | A Boy Named Charlie Brown |
Baseball, Baseball | Jane Morgan with George Barnes Quintet | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round the World | Russ Hodges | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
Bogey on Baseball | Humphrey Bogart | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
Bye-Bye, Baby | KSFO | Radio station jingle |
Casey at the Bat | DeWolf Hopper | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
Catch Royal-Mania | Kansas City Royals | Team jingle |
Catchers Drummers Anchormen | Eddie from Ohio | I Rode Fido Home |
Catfish | Joe Cocker | The Anthology |
Centerfield | John Fogerty | Centerfield |
Charlie Brown and His All-Stars | George Winston | Linus and Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi |
D-O-D-G-E-R-S (Oh, Really? No, O'Malley) | Danny Kaye | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? | Count Basie and His Orchestra | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
Dock Ellis | S.F. Seals | Baseball Trilogy |
Hammerin' Hank's Historic Homer | Milo Hamilton | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
Hey, Boston, I'm Looking for Some Action (Audio) | WMEX | Radio station jingle |
I Feel So Bad | Elvis Presley | 2nd to None |
I Love Mickey | Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
Intro: Mr. Cub | Ernie Banks | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
It's a Beautiful Day for a Ball Game | The Harry Simeone Songsters | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
Joe Dimaggio Done It Again | Billy Bragg & Wilco | Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2 |
Joltin' Joe Dimaggio | Les Brown & His Orchestra, Featuring Betty Bonney | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
S.F. Seals | Baseball Trilogy | |
Knock It Out the Park | Sam & Dave with the Dixie Flyers | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
Lee Elia Press Conference, April 29, 1983 | Lee Elia | |
Let's Keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn | Phil Foster | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech | Lou Gehrig | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
Meet the Mets | New York Mets | Team jingle |
Move Over Babe (Here Comes Henry) | Bill Slayback | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
Na Na Hey Hey | The C. Norman Ensemble of the First Baptist Church of Crown Heights | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
Night Game | Paul Simon | Still Crazy After All These Years |
Opening Day | The Folk Implosion | The Folk Implosion |
Piazza New York Catcher | Belle & Sebastian | Dear Catastrophe Waitress |
Play Ball | The Tokens | Oldies Are Now |
Play-by-Play (I Saw It on the Radio) | Terry Cashman | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
Right Field | Peter, Paul and Mary | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
Robbie-Doby-Boogie | Brownie McGhee | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song) | The Treniers | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
Sounds Like Baltimore Sports (WBAL and the Orioles) (Audio) | WBAL | Radio station jingle |
Sounds Like the Giants Have Come to Play | KNBR | Radio station jingle |
T.E.A.M. (The Baseball Game) | You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Original Cast | Original Cast Recording |
Talkin' Softball | Terry Cashman | Go Simpsonic with the Simpsons |
Take a Giant Step (Audio) | KNBR | Radio station jingle |
Take Me Out to the Ball Game | Bruce Springstone | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
Take Me Out to the Ball Game | Edward Meeker | Recording from approx. 1908 |
Take Me Out to the Ball Game | Kathleen Holeman | Don't You Wonder? |
Take Me Out to the Ballgame | The Pittsburghers | 1948 National Quartet Champions |
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (Excerpt) | Doc and Merle Watson | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
That Last Home Run | McKinley Mitchell with Willie Dixon's Chicago Blues All-Stars | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
That's the Baseball News Today | WBZ | Radio station jingle |
The Ball Game | Sister Wynona Carr | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
The Ballad of Denny McLain | S.F. Seals | Baseball Trilogy |
The Ballad of John Rocker (Club Version) | Tim Wilson | Hillbilly Homeboy |
The Baseball Song | Tim Flannery | Highway Song |
The Bingo Long Song (Steal On Home) | Thelma Houston | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
The Cubbies Are Rockin' | M.C. Gary/D.J. Barry and the Aggregation | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
The First Baseball Game | Nat King Cole | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
The Game for All America (A Definition of Baseball) | Ernie Harwell | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
The Land of Wrigley | Stormy Weather | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
The Philadelphia Fillies | Del Reeves | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
The Phillies (Audio) | WFIL | Radio station jingle |
The Pirates Are What We're All About (Audio) | KDKA | Radio station jingle |
The St. Louis Browns | Skip Battin | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
The Wizard of Oz | Sam Bush | King of My World |
Tiger Baseball Comes Your Way (Audio) | WWJ | Radio station jingle |
Tommy Lasorda Talkin' About Dave Kingman | Tommy Lasorda | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
Van Lingle Mungo | Dave Frischberg | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
Walter Johnson | Jonathan Richman | You Must Ask the Heart |
We Are the Champions | Big Blue Wrecking Crew | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
What Bothers the Spaceman? | Mono Puff | Unsupervised |
What Sparks a Champion? | Wheaties | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
Who's on First? | Abbott & Costello | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
Will You Be Ready at the Plate (When Jesus Throws the Ball) | Elmo & Patsy | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
Willie, Mickey & the Duke (Talkin' Baseball) | Terry Cashman | Baseball's Greatest Hits |
World Series '57 | John McCutcheon | John McCutcheon's Four Seasons: Autumn Songs |
World Series 1983 | TV theme | |
Yankee Baseball, Talkradio 77 WABC (Audio) | WABC | Radio station jingle |
You've Got to Have Heart | Damn Yankees Original Cast | Baseball's Greatest Hits: Let's Play 2 |
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