Baseball Music

Baseball music refers to the melody or tune in relation to the sport of baseball in a certain league or time. Some of these baseball music become legendary and memorable to people. Do you know some of the songs and music for a baseball game that greatly contributed and made its moniker in the history of baseball?

The baseball game music and composition had trailed its paths in the evolution of music history. The history of music played at baseball games was only from the year 1895 up to 1920. This is the time when the “Hey Day” of the American parlor piano and the “Tin Pan Alley” of the popular music publishing industry became prominent. The “Hey Day” and the “Tin Pan Alley” had been an essential part of old baseball music history. These two songs had been a part of every family and friend’s group of pastime in America for evening’s entertainment.

Because of this era when the baseball sounds and music emerged, some writers have called this period the “Silver Age”. This is also the era when two status of dual major leagues were re-established, whereas, the World Series was organized and Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb had become the legendary heroes that most baseball music composers admired.

However the baseball theme music started to decline during the era of 1920s due to the emergence of the recording industries and television broadcasting technology. An interesting baseball fact about music baseball theme is the one that labeled baseball sport as America’s National Game.
The baseball event had been the inspiration of various musical compositions and songs during its time. Due to the efforts of some concerned musical divisions, numerous websites were created to consolidate garnered music materials for baseball and country music as well.

In the pages of these websites few examples of baseball music are accessible as MIDI files. Some files are offered with prices because of its unique 19th century sounds qualities. However, most of the baseball themes played during the time of 19th century was recorded with baseball organ music.

Some of the music pieces listed in the websites is available as sheet music. Each music piece has a high resolution scan of the original sheet music whereas most sheets have original covers. Some of the original pieces that have high resolutions scan were The Base Ball Song by W.J. Bullock in 1874; Bat and Ball March by Julius E. Muller Opus 198 #4 & E. Mack in 1880; The Atlantik Polka by Horace Van Tassel in 1870; and the America’s National Game by H.O. Wheeler and Percy Kingsley in 1889.