5. Talkin’ Baseball (Baseball and the Cubs) 2008 – Terry Cashman

Terry Cashman has been in the music industry for nearly 50 years. During his impressive career, he has produced for Jim Croce and written songs for the Partridge Family, but he is perhaps best known for his 1981 hit, “Talkin’ Baseball.” Originally a song paying tribute to players from the 1950s, Cashman has since rewritten “Talkin’ Baseball” many times with different lyrics for different major league teams, including this rendition for the 2008 Chicago Cubs. Cashman is uniquely qualified to pen baseball songs because he is a former pro baseball player himself. From 1959-1960 Terry Cashman played in the Detroit Tigers farm system while at the same time acting as lead singer for a group called the Chevrons (who had three chart hits and appeared on “American Bandstand”). Though he ultimately settled on music as a career over baseball, Cashman shows his love of baseball through his music and to date has written approximately 70 songs on the subject.

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