Folk Songs About Baseball

Major League Baseball's Opening Day is usually April 1st.

Rachel Harrington \ Shoeless Joe
Tom Paxton \ My Favorite Spring \ Live for the Record \ Sugar Hill

[played 2007]
Heidi Muller\ I Like Baseball\ Giving Back\ Self
Erik Balkey\ Baseball in my Blood\ While the Paint Dries\ Hudson Harding
(about the end of the season)

[all-baseball albums]
Terry Cashman's CD "Passin it On" which is entirely baseball songs. 
Joe Manning's "I Love Baseball" CD
Chuck Brodsky / The Baseball Ballads / whole album
Diamond Cuts compilations from "Hungry for Music"
Some of the songs that the Hungry For Music series lacks can be found
on Rhino's 2-volume collection, "Baseball's Greatest Hits."
Appearing on these compilations, among many others, are Count Basie &
His Orchestra, Sister Wynona Carr, Doc & Merle Watson, Mickey Mantle
& Teresa Brewer (really),  Nat King Cole, Peter, Paul & Mary, Sam &
Dave, Elmo & Patsy, The Naturals with Mel Allen, Brownie McGhee,
and... Abbott & Costello.

[baseball]
Danny O'Keefe - Mad Ruth
Michael McNevin - Pride of Niles-Centerville Little League
Secondhand story - Mudpuddle Music

Lou and Petere Berryman's - Here's Lou with the Sports
We Don't Talk About That! - CornBelt records

Howie Newman\ Baseball's Greatest Hits

Tim Flannery (former ballplayer) "The Baseball Song"

Trout Fishing in America song about baseball: "Hard Ball" from the release
"My World".  also "Back When I Could Fly."

Stephen Cohen: Baseball, Baseball, on the Many Hats CD

Pat Donohue\ Touch 'Em All\ Back Roads\ Bluesky
Christine Kane - An Uneventful Evening - A THOUSAND GIRLS/Breeze
Cross that Line \ JOHN MCCUTCHEON \ Storied Ground \ Rounder
Take Me Out to the Ballgame \ BRUCE SPRINGSTONE \ Same \ Clean Cuts
Ballad of a Ballgame \ CHRISTINE LAVIN \ Sometimes Mother Really Knows Best \ Appleseed
Casey at the Bat \ THE MCCLAIN FAMILY BAND \ Big Hill \ Country Life

[baseball players]
Sam Bush\ The Wizard of Oz\ King of My World\ Sugar Hill
(about shortstop Ozzie Smith)
Tom Russell\ The Kid from Spavinaw\ Modern Art\ Hightone
(about Mickey Mantle)
Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit that Ball \ COUNT BASIE ORCH \ Blues &  Rhythm Revue \ RCA
Jerry Jeff Walker's song about Nolan Ryan
Bob Dylan's "Bootleg Series" includes a song about Catfish Hunter

[baseball - Cubs]
Chuck Brodsky\ Curse of the Billy Goat\ Tulips for Lunch\ Waterbug
Joe Giacoio\ God Knows\ I Sing the Body Acoustic\ Romantic Devil
Tom Paxton\ My Favorite Spring\ Live for the Record
Steve Goodman / A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request / Affordable Art
Steve Goodman / Take Me Out to the Ballgame / Affordable Art

[baseball - Mariners]
Heidi Muller\ I Like Baseball\ Giving Back\ self
John McCutcheon / The Greatest Story Never Told (intro) / KBCS concert at Town Hall (CD-R)

[baseball - White Sox]
Rachel Harrington\ Shoeless Joe\ The Bootlegger's Daughter\ Skinny Dennis

[Carefree Highway 2007]
1. Martin Sexton/Star Spangled Banner/Diamond Cuts/Hungry for Music
2. Los Straightjackets/Take me Out to the Ball Game/Diamond Cuts-Triple
Play/Hungry for Music
3. Ruth Brown/Baseball Boogie/Diamond Cuts-Turning 2/Hungry for Music
4. Grave Robbers/The lst Ball Game/Diamond Cuts/Hungry for Music
5. Tim Flannery/The Baseball Song/Diamond Cuts-Bottom of the 5th/Hungry for
Music
6. The Fans/Home Run/Play Ball/TELARC Digital…Babe Ruth/12 and 33/Take Me
Out to the Ball Game/Sony Classical
7. Dan Bern/The Babe/Diamond Cuts-Turning 2/Hungry for Music
8. Tom Russell/The Kid from Spavinaw/Modern Art/Hightone Records
9. John Fogerty/Centerfield/Centerfield/Warner Bros.
10.S.F. Seals/Joltin’Joe Dimaggio/Diamond Cuts/Hungry for Music
11.Russ Hodges/Willie’s Catch/Take Me Out to the Ball Game/Sony Classical
12.The Trainers/The Willie Mays Song/Baseball’s Greatest Hits/Rhino
13.Teresa Brewer/I Love Mickey/Baseball’s Greatest Hits/Rhino
14.Terry Cashman/Willie, Mickey, & the Duke/Baseball’s Greatest Hits/Rhino
15.Bob Dylan/Catfish/Diamond Cuts/Hungry for Music
16.Buck O’Neil/I was right on time…/Diamond Cuts/Hungry for Music
17.Garland Jeffery/Color Line/Diamond Cuts-Turning 2/Hungry for Music
18. Kathy Kallic/Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?/Diamond Cuts
19.Jesse Jackson/Robinson Eulogy/Diamond Cuts/Hungry for Music
20.Abbott&Costello/Who’s on First?/Play Ball/TELARC
21.John McCutcheon/Baseball on the Block/Family Garden/Rounder
22.Michael McNevin/Pride of Niles Centerfield./2nd Hand Story/???????
23.Peter, Paul, & Mary/Right Field/Peter, Paul, and Mommy/Warner Bros
24.Tom Paxton/My Favorite Spring/Diamond Cuts/Hungry for Music
25.Jon Miller/Various/S.F. Giants 50 Greatest Moments/Shappell
26.Jerry Jeff Walker/Nolan Ryan(He’s a Hero to all)/Diamond Cuts/Hungry for
Music
27.Bruce Springsteen/Glory Days/Diamond Cuts/Hungry for Music