After the Success of Take Me out to The Ball Game in 1908, the copycat sheet music that followed was about taking your girl to the ball game. Baseball players hit the vaudeville stage not only as singers but writers. Lyrics started to note baseball stars, and even fans were immortalized. Modern baseball song writers hit the stage of Cooperstown.

The sheet music for "Brother Noah Gave Out Checks For Rain" was published in 1907 by Jos. Morris, of Philadelphia. Words and Music By Arthur Longbrake, the song is a Story, of Deacon Jones' novel idea to raise money to fix the leaky Church Roof.

 The Congregation will have a baseball game on Emancipation Day! One member of the Congregation, Sister Jones protests “That am no game for good church folks to play,” the Good Deacon sets her straight, this idea is right out of the "Good Book."

 The cover art for "The Great Baseball Song" depicts the Congregation playing a baseball game with the church in the background. It was common for Tin Pan Alley to print various copies of the same sheet music featuring different photos of vaudeville singers. One copy has an insert picture of Ed Morton. This copy features Tom Lancaster. Brother Noah Gave Out Checks for Rain was recorded in 1907 by Arthur Collins on the Victor Grand Prize Black and Gold Label Record.

  "The Millionaires" March Two-Step by C.D. Henninger, was published in 1908 by Vandersloot Music Pub. Co., of Williamsport, PA. One of the earliest promotions tied to Williamsport baseball entailed the commissioning of a music composition to celebrate the Williamsport Millionaires' 1908 Tri-State League Championship Season.

 The Millionaires ball club finished the 1908 season with a record of 82-45, good for a first place finish in the Independent Tri-State League.

A total of 12 ballplayers from this team played in the major leagues; Manager/Players Harry Wolverton, Birdie Cree, Tom Doran, Eddie Foster, Warren Miller, Tom O'Hara, Dave Shean, Jack Stansbury, Happy Townsend, Jack Warhop, Jack Flater, and Harry Kane.

The Sheet music for "Come On Play Ball With Me Dearie," as sung in F. Ziegfeld Jr's Annual Summer Review Follies of 1909; written by Edward Madden and Gus Edwards, was published by Gus Edwards Music Publishing Company. Gus Edwards, Known as “The Star Maker” was an American composer; songwriter, film director, vaudevillian, organized his own theatre companies, and was a music publisher.

 The finale of the first set representing the New York Polo Grounds is where one of Ziegfeld's biggest novelties is portrayed. Eva Tanguay sings the song "Come On Play Ball With Me Dearie." At the conclusion of the song, she and the Ziegfeld beauty girls, about 60 in all, throw lifelike soft canvas baseballs stuffed with hay at the audience. The girls are pelted in return. The volley is kept up for several minutes, and it was said that over 800 baseballs were need at every performance.

Words by Fred C. Roegge and music by Berte C. Randall, the sheet music for "Hurray For Our Base Ball Team" was published in 1909 by Charles I. Davis Music Publisher of Cleveland, Ohio. The song "Dedicated to the American and National Leagues," was written to work in the name of a local player or city in the town it was being performed (e.g. third verse finishes with "We’ll root for (local town) that’s no lie Hurray")

 The cover features an illustration of a large pennant, with portrait images of each Major-League manager,as well as the respective league presidents, Ban Johnson and Harry Pulliam. The American League managers at the top; Nap Lajoie, Jimmy McAleer, Connie Mack, Fred Lake, Hughie Jennings, Joe Cantillion, George Stallings, and Billy Sullivan. The National League managers at the bottom; Billy Murray, Frank Bowerman, Fred Clarke, Clark Griffith, John McGraw, Roger Bresnahan, Harry Lumley, and Frank Chance. Pictured below the pennant is a game-in-progress scene from Chicago's West Side Park.

  "I Can't Miss That Ball Game," lyrics by George Moriarty, and music by Joe Cooper, was published by Harry Cooper Music Publishing Company in 1910.

  Lyricist George Moriarty was a Major League third baseman, who played in the majors from 1903 to 1916. From 1917 to 1940 Moriarty was an American League Umpire interrupted only by a 2-year stint as manager of the Detroit Tigers. (1927-1928)

 The lyrics in the song "Who's going to pitch? the teacher said, It's Matty Jimmy cried!" refers to New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson. The sheet cover-art by Starmer, depicts four children in common attire for the era, watching a baseball game through holes in a wooden picket palisade style fence. One hole remains unoccupied and is marked, "Jimmy," the boy featured in the song.

A song written in 1910 by Harry Breen and Albert Von Tilzer, "Back To The Bleachers For Mine" was a big hit on the vaudeville circuit. Two years earlier Albert Von Tilzer wrote "Take Me out to the Ball Game" which became the official anthem of baseball.

  The cover illustration features baseball equipment; fielder's glove, Catchers mitt, catchers masks, and ring baseball bats. There are at least two different covers. This one pictures vaudeville and silent films star Violet MacMillan and the other Eunice Burnham & Charlotte Greenwood.

  Guy Harris "Doc" White pitched for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1901, 1902, and the Chicago White Sox from 1903 to 1913. White set the major League record of Five consecutive shutouts in 1904 within a span of 18 days. A record that would hold up until Don Drysdale threw six consecutive in 1968.

 White also gained some recognition as a composer, having at least four songs published such as the bestseller; "Little Puff of Smoke, Good Night" in 1910, and "Gee! It's a Wonderful Game " in 1911. Both songs made it's debut on the vaudeville stage-

 on August 15, 1910 at the American Music Hall in Chicago. Doc White who had an "agreeable" baritone voice performed the two songs on the vaudeville stage after the 1911 baseball season.

 Although the sheet music did not do as well "Gee! It's a Wonderful Game" was recorded by Dodworth Saxhorn Band with Juliet Lambert for the 1994 Ken Burns documentary, Baseball. The sheet music was published by Jerome H. Remick & Co. The title cover depicts "Christy" Columbus watching Christy Mathewson, and Napoleon ("Mr. Bonaparte") watching Nap Lajoie. A black & white picture of "G. Harris (Doc) White" encircled by a baseball.

  Lyrics written by Dave Wolff, music by Clarence Jones, the sheet music for "That Baseball Rag" was published by Harold Rossiter Music Company. The cover illustration, by "LIPSKI," features a boy watching the ball game through a knothole in the fence, and a pennant raised above it that reads: "WORLD'S CHAMPIONS 1913."

 Nothing to do with the song, the 1913 World Series, featured the Philadelphia Athletics beating the New York Giants four games to one. It was common for Tin Pan Alley to print various copies of the same sheetmusic featuring different photos of vaudeville singers. There were at least three other covers, with one picturing vaudeville, ragtime, musical revue and musical comedy performer Janet Adair. "That Baseball Rag" was recorded by Vaudeville star Arthur Collins on the Victor Record label.

Words by J.E. Lean, music by Ray Waters, the sheet music for "Casey At The Ball Game" was published by; the Marks-Goldsmith Company Inc., Music Publishers and Dealers, Washington DC, in 1914.

 "Casey at The Ball Game" was never recorded but performances did make it to the vaudeville circuit. The song lyrics about "Bill Casey, ...an ardent baseball fan, ...always sat behind the pan... and call all his men by name" has similarities to the real life Cincinnati Reds fan Lycurgus McDowell.

McDowell AKA "Casey Jones," was Known throughout Ohio for his passion for the game, was declared by many to be the greatest baseball fan on the globe. McDowell's job as a railroad engineer enabled him to see the Reds in Chicago, St. Louis or New York, as he sat alone rooting loyalty for his team. McDowell's name was scarcely known among major league ball players, all of whom he knew well enough to call by their first names, until Bob Bescher a Cincinnati Reds ball player referred to him as "Casey Jones," a 1912 song about a railroad engineer. The name stuck.

  Copyrighted by the NY Herald newspaper, Dolly Dip, a pretty girl who loves dancing and music, was featured in the Sunday comic section from November 1914 to June 1915. "Dolly Dip" was a feature absolutely unique, for each adventure was accompanied by an entirely new piece of "Modern Music."

 The series of Dolly's spirited adventures, where her dancing tendencies always save the situation, is accompanied with a story line-song lyrics written by Mary Watts. Dolly Dip's dance escapades are set to music composed by Sol P. Levy, with new and original tangoes, one-steps, maxixes, hesitations, and fox trots. A complete dance in each weekly installment.

 The 1915 Boston Sunday Post Newspaper, one of a number that carried the Dolly Dip comic-Sheet Music, featured "A touch of Tango makes the whole World spin," with the story line "Dolly Dip Opens the Baseball Season" Which can be sung to the dance music. The Sheet Music Drawing was done by Herman Hirschauer, which illustrates an early 20th century ball game, with Dolly Dip throwing a ball from the stands, and the a caption, "Dolly starts the 1915 Series but, __ the game had to be postponed."

Words and music by Harry S. Faunce, the sheet music for "It’s A Grand Old Game" Sheet Music was published in 1931 by Lenox Music Co., 246 Huntington Avenue, Boston Mass. The song was introduced by Billy Freestone, featured soloist with Ted Hanson's Broadcasting Orchestra over the Yankee Network radio station in Massachusetts.

 The front cover shows a scene from a World Series game between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees in 1923 at Yankee Stadium.

 Extra choruses printed on the back include: Boston Braves, Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators and St Louis Cardinals. There are references to players being in the "Baseball Hall of fame" in this 1931 song, five years before the hall opened in Cooperstown in 1936.

 Lyrics include "Hack Wilson, the great Babe, are in the Hall of Fame," and "Chick Hafey, Orsatti, are in the hall of fame." The honor was given on paper to players by sportswriters for great achievements such as a no hitter, or leading the league in a statistical category. Players were also added to the honor roll of the "Baseball's Hall Of Fame" by the American or National League committee, selecting the most valuable player each year before 1931 when the MVP award became the standard.

 The sheet music for "Baseball" (America's Favorite Game) was published and copyrighted in 1939 by Words and Music Inc. The song written by Tom Waring, Paul Gibbons, & Graig Leitch was featured and performed by the Pennsylvanians, on Fred Waring's 15 minute Radio Show, "Chesterfield Pleasure Time.

 "Baseball" (America's Favorite Game) was the first tune Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians played on the September 30, 1941 for the NBC Network broadcast. The last lines of the song, a far cry from the lyric written for "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" are "They sell peanuts and popcorn and cigarettes too, mostly the brand that we offer to you. Its Base Ball, Base Ball Americas Favorite Game."

 The white & blue title sheet pictures Fred Waring, with Poley McClintock, and Paul Douglas gripping the handle of a baseball bat in a "choosing sides" manner. Paul Douglas was the announcer on the radio show. The back cover features a Chesterfield Cigarette ad. The inside of the sheet Reads; "Tune in Fred Warings "Chesterfield Pleasure Time" Broadcast Monday's through Fridays ... NBC Coast-to Coast Network"

  Another song written by ex-major league ballplayer, manager, and umpire, George Moriarty, was "You're Gonna Win That Ball Game - Uncle Sam !" The sheet music was published in 1943, by Forster Music Publishers of Chicago.

 The Newly written "War Song" was first presented in 1942 at a meeting of sports writers, and radio announcers. The song was a hit, copyrighted and published shortly after in 1943. The song was "Introduced and featured by Detroit's popular Comedy quartet 'The Four Dukes,' pictured on the cover.

 Uncle Sam is illustrated swinging a baseball bat just to the right of a blank base ball with the instructions, Autograph the Ball." Inside the front cover are Previews of the songs "My Best To You" and "Just To Be Near You."

 During WWII, from March 1943, to 1945, the Special Services Division Army service Forces, issued "Hit Kits" to U.S. Solders both home and abroad. The "Hit Kits" carried words and music of songs selected by a committee of prominent musicians. Current popular hits and old favorites were included.

 "Army Hit Kit Tunes," V-discs, phonographic recordings by prominent artists of stage, radio and screen were issue overseas to solders. Musical instruments were also sent; pianos, accordions, tambourines, saxophones, violins, and harmonicas.

 Issued monthly by Special Service Division, Army Service Forces, U.S. Army the Hit Kits came in two formats. Pocket size folders, with song lyrics were distributed among groups of four or five men, belonging to the same unit. The music for piano and voice were prepared in a standard sheet music size folders. The contents of this April 1944, 12 page Army Hit Kit Of Popular Songs, features seven songs including the sheet music for "Take Me Out To The Ball Game."

  Written by Ruth Roberts and Bill Katz "Meet The Mets" the official song of the New York Mets, was published by Goldenrod Music, Inc. in 1963.

 There was a second publication in 1969, a third in 1991, and again in 1999. The 1969 cover price was .85¢. There is no cover price on the 1999 publication, suggesting that it was from a Shea Stadium promotional giveaway around the year 2000.

 The front of the Sheet music has an illustration of Mr. Met. The back tells the story of the song. Fans Ruth Roberts and Bill Katz penned the song in 1961 for a contest and received Mets season tickets and a “bunch of beer” as compensation when their entry was selected.

"Willie, Mickey & "The Duke" (Talking Baseball)" is a song about New York's three great outfielders Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, and Duke Snider. The song also covers major league baseball from the 1950s to the 1980s. Written by Terry Cashman, the Sheet music was published by Blendingwell Music Corporation in 1981. The song was released by Lifesong Records during the 1981 baseball strike.

 Terry Cashman, who was honored in Cooperstown as part of Hall of Fame Weekend 2011, wrote approximately 70 baseball songs. He sang his timeless hit “Talkin’ Baseball” as part of the Hall of Fame's Awards Presentation on July 23, 2011 at Cooperstown's Doubleday Field.

  Cashman, again performed the song at the 1982 Induction Ceremony, singing in front of inductees Hank Aaron, Happy Chandler, Travis Jackson and Frank Robinson. On that occasion, he also performed a song written specially for the Hall of Fame, called “Cooperstown (The Town Where Baseball Lives).”

Another song which made it to the Hall Of Fame is John Fogerty's "Centerfield." In 2010, John Fogerty became the only musician to be celebrated at the Hall of Fame Ceremony when the song "Centerfield" was honored by the National Baseball hall of Fame.

 Fogerty performed “Centerfield” at the event, with a baseball bat-shaped guitar which he donated for display in the museum. The Sheet music for "Centerfield," words and music by John Fogerty was published by Wenhaa Music Company in 1985. The sheet includes professional fake book arrangements.

 The song was recorded by John Fogerty in 1984, and released by Warner Bros. Records, in 1985, on Fogerty's 3rd solo album with the hit singles "Rock and Roll Girls', and the title track "Centerfield". Joe DiMaggio, Ty Cobb, and Willie Mays, all centerfielders, are mentioned in the Lyrics.