It’s that time again, time for Baseball season to begin. Whenever I think about baseball I can’t help but think bout my brother who loves baseball. I don’t men he loves baseball, I mean he LOVES baseball. He bought baseball cards from the time he was 5 years old and kept them! When many kids placed the cards in the spoke of the bicycle wheels to get that whirring sound, my brother was creating stats fields on paper and marking them down from the back of the cards. He started playing baseball in the late 60s and was forced to stop just last year. His knees gave out and had to give up playing, but on his terms. He had knee replacement surgery on his left knee in January and is recuperating nicely but it has not been easy.
I’m dedicating this post to my beloved bro and would love to know his baseball song pics in the comments below. I’m going with 3 big baseball players who have had songs (and movies) made about them. Here are my 3 choices for this week’s theme from Monday Music Moves Me..
1. THE BABE(BABE RUTH) SUNG BY TERRY CASHMAN-1994
Yeah.... you have to go to youtube to play this. I couldnt find it via Blig...grrrr. Terry Cashman is a noted music producer but is also famous for the song, “Talkin’ Baseball” but I thought of some famous baseball players who must have had songs written about them. The great Babe Ruth came to mind and I found this song. I think Terry wrote in 1994, but I wonder if this song is actually earlier….
2. JOLTIN’ JOE SUNG BY BETTY BONNEY WITH THE LES BROWN ORCHESTRA-1941
Joe DiMaggio is another very famous Baseball player from the 1930s and early 40s who had a 56 game hitting streak. He is also famous for falling in love and marrying Marilyn Monroe. Even though they divorced, they started getting closer, again, shortly before her death and was devastated when she died. He made sure her funeral was perfect and he sent a red rose to her grave every day.
3. DID YOU SEE JACKIE ROBINSON HIT THAT BALL BY COUNT BASIE-1949
This song was written by Buddy Johnson and became a hit. Jackie Robinson is a noted baseball player who deserves the accolades of a player in the big leagues, but he is also known as the first man to break the colour barrier. This man deserves so much more for heroic times on and off the field dealing with the horrible racism that is ingrained in the U.S, especially the South. I like this song and I wish it was as well known as the standard ones like, “Take Me Out To The Ball Game.”
Which songs do you think of when baseball season comes round.
I liked these old time songs back when baseball was truly the American pasttime. (I suspect now it's a tie between football and basketball). The first and last songs were new to me. For baseball, I think of both John Fogerty's Centerfield and some of the advertising jingles from my childhood - Baseball and Ballentine in particular.
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