My favorite baseball song is Van Lingle Mungo by Dave Frishberg. The songs lyrics consist entirely of the names of baseball players. It's actually a catchy tune and quite clever.
One of the players in that song, Phil Cavaretta, the 1945 NL MVP for the Cubs, their last World Series team, passed away yesterday from complications of a stroke. He was 94, a good run.
So the Cubs lose Ron Santo this month and now Cavaretta.
By the way, here are the lyrics to Van Lingle Mungo.
HEENEY MAJESKI,JOHNNY GEE,EDDIE JOOST,JOHNNY PESKY,THORNTON LEE,DANNY GARDELLA,
VAN LINGLE MUNGO
WHITEY KUROWSKI, MAX LANIER, EDDIE WAITKUS, and JOHNNY VANDER MEER,BOB ESTALELLA,
VAN LINGLE MUNGO
AUGIE BERGAMO, SIGMUND JAKUCKI,BIG JOHNNY MIZE and, BARNEY MCCOSKY, HAL TROSKY,
AUGIE GALAN and PINKY MAY, STAN HACK and FRENCHY BORDAGARAY, PHIL CAVARRETTA,
GEORGE MCQUINN, HOWARD POLLET and EARLY WYNN, ROY CAMPANELLA,VAN LINGLE MUNGO
AUGIE BERGAMO, SIGMUND JAKUCKI, BIG JOHNNY MIZE and, BARNEY MCCOSKY, HAL TROSKY,
JOHN ANTONELLI, FERRIS FAIN, FRANKIE CROSETTI, JOHNNY SAIN, HARRY BRECHEEN,and
LOU BOUDREAU, FRANKIE GUSTINE and CLAUDE PASSEAU,
EDDIE BASINSKI, ERNIE LOMBARDI, HUEY MULCAHY, VAN LINGLE, VAN LINGLE MUNGO.
I would suggest you listen to the song. The lyrics then will make more sense.
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