Songs about ballplayers

[Greg Cleveland]

"Harmon Killebrew" by Jeff Arundel. Not an old song, pretty new.

And no songs, but so cool as collectibles... (love that Mickey Mantle album!)

 

[gmarutiak]

Totally forgot about it until it came up randomly on my ipod last night: "Bill Lee" by Warren Zevon. Really short song, with harmonica taking the place of most words, but includes the excellent lyrics: "and when I'm standing in the middle of the diamond all alone, I always play to win when it comes to skin and bone."

 

[MisterT]

I am sure this is not the genre you are looking for...but modern Red Sox fans have this in their blood (even though the references throughout the song are from long, long ago).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6EIN3EeE78

Edit: FWIW, here is the story behind the original Tessie and this one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessie