Commentary: Who would have ever guessed that the biggest talking point of the Mariners’ season so far would be a novelty song with largely unintelligible lyrics that was written in 1955?

Hampshire had a handful of songs that charted well in the early and mid-'70s, with his cover of Cat Stevens’ “The First Cut is the Deepest” reaching No. 1 in Canada in '73. The Blue Jays’ signature ...

The strains of Kate Smith's version of "God Bless America" no longer echo throughout Yankee Stadium during the seventh-inning stretch because of hints of racism in the late singer's past. This ...

The tune is never sung in its entirety during the seventh-inning stretch, but the lyrics tell a story. Katie Casey was baseball mad, the song begins. The Katie in the song is also known to be ...

But her statement spent the seventh-inning stretch in a garbage can, while most of the crowd of 50,119 politely stood and cheered for the song. During the middle innings, a security guard had ...

The Orioles have tried to implement new seventh-inning stretch music over the years: “Orioles Magic” in 1980, Rick Dempsey’s “Old Time Rock and Roll” cover in ’87, and others. None caught on like ...

Don Cherry sings Take Me Out to the Ball Game during the seventh-inning stretch of Saturday's game between the Toronto Blue Jays and Chicago Cubs. (Twitter/@Cubs) Hockey season may not have ...

But the song itself predates the team by nearly five decades. It began as an instrumental polka, born from a Czech composer named Jaromír Vejvoda in 1927 with lyrics added in the mid-1930s.

The great 7th-inning stretch song debate: Did the Mariners make the right call by ditching "Louie, Louie" for Macklemore's "Can't Hold Us?" 🤔 — Seattle Times Sports (@SeaTimesSports) April 19 ...