List includes walk-up songs used by David Ortiz, Chipper Jones, Josh Reddick, Manny Machado, Mike Yastrzemski and Ken Griffey, Jr.
Fans of every stripe have the city of Chicago to thank for deep-dish pizza, Italian beef sandwiches and the Smashing Pumpkins — and baseball walk-up music.
The walk-up song — the snippet of music that’s blasted as a batter approaches the plate — really got its start in the Windy City in the early 1970s. It was the brainchild of Chicago White Sox organist Nancy Faust, who is credited on MLB.com as the originator of the genre.. “I just played intro music for whoever was coming up to bat.”
The music did far more than merely identify the man heading out to bat. It fired up the batter and the crowd and psyched out the opposing team. It was a game changing idea, given that up until then, ballpark music was primarily a mix of the national anthem, organ standards and, of course, the iconic “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” A half century after Faust had the bright idea, walk-up music is now as much a part of the fabric of baseball as Cracker Jack and the crack of the bat.
These are some of the all-time best walk-up music choices and the players associated with those tunes. This walk-up music list goes up to bat with a tip of the hat to the originator herself — Faust, who played this classic R&B-pop number from Oakland’s The Pointer Sisters to bring Harold Baines to the plate.
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