Baseball has a long and storied history with the arts, from theater and film to the visual arts and, yes, music.
Or maybe you’ve never heard “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”? Of course, you have — as well as a lot of the other best-known songs about America’s pastime.
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So, instead of giving you the usual suspects, we’ve come up with a list of cool baseball tunes that you’ve probably never heard before. And we’ll kick off the list with a pair of tunes about legendary players from our own Green and Gold:
“Vida Blue,” Albert Jones (1971)
It’s a funky, soulful ode to the Oakland A’s young phenom from the early ’70s, who helped the team win three consecutive World Series titles (1972-1974) and become a true dynasty without the help of electronic sign stealing.