I went to a Pirates/Cardinals series last fall and they played this song during the warm ups and during an inning change for all 3 games. Felt awesome and nostalgic.
WTF this isn't like a song you can get away from GO TO any baseball game from little league to the Giants and you're forced to listen to it for the next 100 yrs.
Lost my mom a couple years ago. From her i got my love of baseball and the LA Dodgers. I have the MLB app and this season i watched a game of the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. I was teary-eyed as i know shes watching them and happy that they are now a Dodgers affiliate. Hopefully, she was greeted by the big Dodger in the sky and Tommy Lasorda.
Reminds me of my Hooter days...wings and cold beer...this song playing over the speakers this pretty girl saying "I don't know why,but i like this songs Hello,Brittany 😊
WHAT CCR's first album has been on the top 100 albums since 1971, hell everyone has cut their songs and Aretha made a lot of money off 2 of their songs. AND he's touring right now in 2024
This was his first solo song he wrote, and recorded, after leaving the music industry, because his music was stolen from him, and he made no loyalties off of it. After a lengthy court battle, he won. It was about baseball, but wasn't really about baseball, it was about him being ready to get back in the game of the music industry, that he had lost trust in. He is a talented man. I'm glad that he persevered over it all, and continues to play the game.
@lyndaferguson816 He wanted out of his contract. He still owed the record company like 8 records. For him to terminate the contract, he gave them the rights to his songs. So it may have been stolen from him, but he agreed to it at the time. He wanted out and that was the price to be paid.
I was an Indians fan in my youth, im 82 now. I had a rough childhood and can do anything when i hear this song. An 82 year old lady in her Indians BB shirt feeling like she can take over the world. Overcomes the worst of the bad childhoods. I love BB to this day.
Keeping this one going for another generation! I heard this as a kid when I played ball. Now doing the same for my daughter who's playing ball. Love you girl keep it up!
I'm an Aussie, Yeah Love the game and love John Fogerty, I will chuck a couple of balls, Hit a couple, and I'm nearly 63 years old. Still got the shit. I am still bullet proof. Try to live were I'm from. If it don't kill ya you get stronger. Put me in coach John I'm ready to play. From Jim.
There WILL NEVER EVER be a better game! The sights, sounds, smells and Summertime! Bunch of men playing a kids game! In the words of Biff Tannon "I've just got one thing to say- God bless America"
Baseball was a man's game played by real men.Notice when Joe Dimaggio was robbed of a home run he was half way to second base,today they are halfway to first.Still a great game and the best baseball song ever.
If you don't love John Fogerty, you don't love America. If you don't love America, y'all got to sundown to git yer asses out of here. Thank you kindly, God bless America.
Every year since 2016 on opening day I watch the Cubs WS dvd & listen to Centerfield. Grew up watchin the Cubs at my great grandma's on a little tv on a TV tray while eating popcorn & I wouldn't trade it for all the big smart tv's & surround sounds in the world.
I love your story! My new tradition starting today is this song and watching the last inning of my beloved Rangers first ever win! I cheered on your Cubs in 2016!
The power and majesty of a home run... The quick, Helvetian precision of a triple play... The daring thrill of a stolen base... The crisp crack of the bat... The verdant grass of the outfield... Forget soccer. THIS is the Beautiful Game. :)
Seems to me they haven't tampered with Baseball quite as much as they have with some other sports (especially "pro" football) - and to me that's a big part of the game's appeal.
Don't be hating on Soccer (Association Football). I love it and baseball equally. I have a lot of Soccer loving friends who hate baseball just as strongly as you hate soccer and I have to fight them just as hard as I am fighting you now. Open your eyes!
Got to listen to this every opening day of baseball. Get me in the mood for some baseball, does not matter whose playing. Love baseball and can not get enough of John Fogerty.
This was one of my Daddy's favorite songs. He passed away almost a month ago. We played this at his funeral and buried him in an Atlanta Braves jersey and wearing his Vietnam veterans hat. I Love you Daddy!
I am a 71 year old woman who loves baseball. When I listen to this song, I miss it even more. No matter what's going on in this world, we all get together when we hear , "PLAY BALL". Thank You John Fogerty!
My son is now 50 and I'm 69. This reminds me of when my son played baseball as a kid. He was a great pitcher but in his freshman year he hyperextended his knee catching a fly ball. Had to have surgery and the doctor told him he could never play again. He cried and so did I.
Mom, I can call you mom. You sound like my late grandmother, oh she loved baseball- was a Dodgers fan from when they were in Brooklyn. She was so very excited when The Rockies finally began playing ball. She passed away in May of '94. I miss her. Anyway have you seen Meat Loaf "Paradise by the Dashboard Light?"
I miss it! I'm 63 and remember my first game I played and the first Tigers game I went to In Detroit When Willie Horton and Al Kaline played Willie put one on the steps of the library across the street over left field!!!! We sat in seats and the ball went over our head and out over the roof!!! I was 7 years old
I am not a big baseball fan but this song came into my mind when I found out last week that I was going to be fighting with lung cancer - "put me in, coach, I'm ready to play!"
My Dad taught me to be quiet while His Tigers were broadcasted by Ernie Harewell, I seen Al Kaline make a shoestring catch to beat the Yankees at home in Aug of 1962. Though Al broke his collarbone : it made me a life long fan ❤️❤️❤️❤️
To a baseball fan, the greatest song ever written. It still makes the hair stand up on my arms. Thank you John, and thank you to all the players that made this America's game.
Baseball is the greatest game ever. I love seeing the old players- I’ve been lucky to meet several of them- mantle, larsen, Aaron, feller,and my neighbor who played for Detroit and Milwaukee/ Atlanta- frank bolling-when the tigers run out he runs to second- ! They are all gone now -
WELL, I am 81 and have loved baseball since I was in 5th grade! Always a Brooklyn Dodgers fan until they moved West and I got married here in the East and now I have become a Phillies fan - GO PHILLIES!! LOVE LISTENING TO JOHN SING CENTERFIELD!! Thank you Mr. Fogerty! :)
Best baseball song ever. I was just a kid When Larry Doby and Jackie Robinson we’re young rookies. This song surely belongs in the National Archives. Paul J.
@hashachar70: Yes, Willie Mays was the greatest! Who could possibly make "the catch" except the say-hey kid? I feel absolutely blessed to have seen Mr. Mays play at Candlestick. Dad and me, loving baseball when it was a game...
@@danielshays7161 Mays was such a great that the Giants took out an ad thanking the fans in the Minneapolis Tribune (he played in Minneapolis for the AAA Millers) when they called him up. Byron Buxton of the Minnesota Twins has cited him as every bit as much an inspiration as his own mentor, Torii Hunter, and Twins legend Kirby Puckett.
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@@marycampbell242 naw thats trash. Do you even know how many verses are in the star spangled banner? You know francis Scott was a slave owner? Like it also fuckin blows. Also talkin baseball is the greatest sport song.
I maintain that this is the greatest Love Song ever written. Covers a multitude of the things we love. Sunshine, new grass, playing games, a chance to shine, the support of our fans. Et. Al. But, the plethora of baseball terms that put a positive and lighthearted spin when applied to romantic Love, is a good, less awkward shorthand.
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This song should be played every opening day.
Maybe at the start of every game
I went to a Pirates/Cardinals series last fall and they played this song during the warm ups and during an inning change for all 3 games. Felt awesome and nostalgic.
Every day for the rest of my life
wow
I agree!
Who's Still Listening To This Song Centerfield From John Fogerty In 2024❤❤❤❤🔥
WTF this isn't like a song you can get away from GO TO any baseball game from little league to the Giants and you're forced to listen to it for the next 100 yrs.
It’s a baseball anthem
🙋♂️
I am...Bob from New Jersey
Yup
Who's ready for the 2024 MLB season.
Yes he is.
Tomorrow!
Go Yankees!
Been ready since last November!
💙❤️⚾💙❤️
Lost my mom a couple years ago. From her i got my love of baseball and the LA Dodgers. I have the MLB app and this season i watched a game of the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. I was teary-eyed as i know shes watching them and happy that they are now a Dodgers affiliate. Hopefully, she was greeted by the big Dodger in the sky and Tommy Lasorda.
When I was a kid. My father would wake me up singing this song, while tickling me. Miss ya Pop.
May your old man rest in peace, up there with Babe Ruth and the rest.
@@DaL33T5 Hittin home runs brother.
my dad use to wake me up and fight me i miss those days core memories forsure
To me, this song just simply represents Americana.
I love baseball!❤
My 7 year old told me to comment that 😂
Reminds me of my Hooter days...wings and cold beer...this song playing over the speakers this pretty girl saying "I don't know why,but i like this songs Hello,Brittany 😊
This song is probably John Fogerty's best lasting legacy. Have you ever attended a baseball game and this wasn't played?
Yes -- but that was before 1985.
WHAT CCR's first album has been on the top 100 albums since 1971, hell everyone has cut their songs and Aretha made a lot of money off 2 of their songs. AND he's touring right now in 2024
I've probably attended more games where this wasn't played.
This was his first solo song he wrote, and recorded, after leaving the music industry, because his music was stolen from him, and he made no loyalties off of it. After a lengthy court battle, he won. It was about baseball, but wasn't really about baseball, it was about him being ready to get back in the game of the music industry, that he had lost trust in. He is a talented man.
I'm glad that he persevered over it all, and continues to play the game.
@lyndaferguson816 He wanted out of his contract. He still owed the record company like 8 records. For him to terminate the contract, he gave them the rights to his songs. So it may have been stolen from him, but he agreed to it at the time. He wanted out and that was the price to be paid.
I was an Indians fan in my youth, im 82 now. I had a rough childhood and can do anything when i hear this song. An 82 year old lady in her Indians BB shirt feeling like she can take over the world. Overcomes the worst of the bad childhoods. I love BB to this day.
Go! Joe! Charboneau!
Go Indians!!!
Keeping this one going for another generation! I heard this as a kid when I played ball. Now doing the same for my daughter who's playing ball. Love you girl keep it up!
My Dad died tuesday. he loved baseball. i called and asked that this song be played at his celebration of life. thank you John Fogerty
I bet he loves that. Just like he loves you still
May your father bat all homers and pitch no-hitters in the afterlife.
Rip 🕊️ fly high
An awsome remembrance...peace and comfort❤
Sorry for your loss. My dad (RIP) introduced me to all these good songs ❤
RIP Mom playing this song for you. Go Tigers!
I'm an Aussie, Yeah Love the game and love John Fogerty, I will chuck a couple of balls, Hit a couple, and I'm nearly 63 years old. Still got the shit.
I am still bullet proof. Try to live were I'm from. If it don't kill ya you get stronger. Put me in coach John I'm ready to play. From Jim.
Not just baseball folks... a metaphor for life...c'mon suit up
There WILL NEVER EVER be a better game! The sights, sounds, smells and Summertime! Bunch of men playing a kids game! In the words of Biff Tannon "I've just got one thing to say- God bless America"
Baseball was a man's game played by real men.Notice when Joe Dimaggio was robbed of a home run he was half way to second base,today they are halfway to first.Still a great game and the best baseball song ever.
Happy opening day!
I still play this, and it is Summer.
How could you not be romantic about baseball?
If there is a better baseball song, I do not know of one
If you don't love John Fogerty, you don't love America. If you don't love America, y'all got to sundown to git yer asses out of here. Thank you kindly, God bless America.
Ya said the perfect words, yeah!!!!7-18-19
My dad loved this song. He passed last year. My 11 year old son now plays.......centerfield.
I sang the opening line ironically today as it was 4 C (39 F) outside and raining, in the middle of May
This song just randomly popped in my head so I had to come find it
"Just hit the ball and touch them all a moment in the sun." Gets me in the feels every time.
I don't know of any other sport with such an anthem.
Every year since 2016 on opening day I watch the Cubs WS dvd & listen to Centerfield. Grew up watchin the Cubs at my great grandma's on a little tv on a TV tray while eating popcorn & I wouldn't trade it for all the big smart tv's & surround sounds in the world.
I love your story! My new tradition starting today is this song and watching the last inning of my beloved Rangers first ever win! I cheered on your Cubs in 2016!
Thanks for baseball season.
R.I.P. Hammerin Hank Aaron... God Bless... True American and Baseball LEGEND.
Hammered 😵 by the shot 💉⚰️!
R.I.P indeed such a big influence Hank was 💯
Amen!
Definitely an eternal great
babe ruth
They don't make great music like this anymore.
THIS is the real National Anthem ⚾️
These were great times. Exciting and fun before everything became about money. Miss this.
So true!
@John Fogerty Well Hello. Guess I'm a little shocked. I have your song on one of my mix collections.
The power and majesty of a home run...
The quick, Helvetian precision of a triple play...
The daring thrill of a stolen base...
The crisp crack of the bat...
The verdant grass of the outfield...
Forget soccer. THIS is the Beautiful Game. :)
Soccer is the most boring game in the world (after golf and curling). The midfield play is so dull.
Seems to me they haven't tampered with Baseball quite as much as they have with some other sports (especially "pro" football) - and to me that's a big part of the game's appeal.
Don't be hating on Soccer (Association Football). I love it and baseball equally. I have a lot of Soccer loving friends who hate baseball just as strongly as you hate soccer and I have to fight them just as hard as I am fighting you now. Open your eyes!
SO GOOD, GOLDEN, HEART-RENDING, HARD-DRIVING AND HAUNTING! 😁😁😁😁😁😂😂😂😂😂😎😎😎😎😎😍😍😍😍😍😭😭😭😭😭⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🏄🏄🏄🏄🏄🌇🌇🌇🌇🌇🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
It’s that time again!!
Got to listen to this every opening day of baseball. Get me in the mood for some baseball, does not matter whose playing. Love baseball and can not get enough of John Fogerty.
Same here😂
Same!
Just did. Great song. Great video.
Same here
I have a CZcams channel
The Tigers are gonna suck this year but still have to play this song for Opening Day!
Just makes you feel good....
Our national sport 🇺🇸.
This was one of my Daddy's favorite songs. He passed away almost a month ago. We played this at his funeral and buried him in an Atlanta Braves jersey and wearing his Vietnam veterans hat. I Love you Daddy!
That's soo Cool.I know Your Dad was smiling when You did this.
@@markallen6818 Thanks you for the kind words. It brought a smile and peaceful thoughts. God bless.
@ Crystal Wallace, very sorry for your loss. Great memory.
So sorry for your loss prayers🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
The new York yeankes are number one.
Whos listening in 2024
Ya buddy!!
Who here can't even wait for spring training to start?
i got a game in 40 minutes and i have 100 degree tempature but im playing anyway
Forget football...baseball rocks❤❤❤❤
I AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Baseball's the only sport I follow.
My baseball song
Im 37 a lifelong chicago white sox fan...when they won the world series in 2005 after 88 years ...this song comes to mind
The crack of the bat always gets me when I hear this song!
Sounds like he got it all..⚾😁🖖
The live performances of the song just aren't as good without that loud home-run crack of the bat
I am a 71 year old woman who loves baseball. When I listen to this song, I miss it even more. No matter what's going on in this world, we all get together when we hear , "PLAY BALL". Thank You John Fogerty!
I hope your doing well! I love reading sweet comments like this.
My son is now 50 and I'm 69. This reminds me of when my son played baseball as a kid. He was a great pitcher but in his freshman year he hyperextended his knee catching a fly ball. Had to have surgery and the doctor told him he could never play again. He cried and so did I.
Mom, I can call you mom. You sound like my late grandmother, oh she loved baseball- was a Dodgers fan from when they were in Brooklyn. She was so very excited when The Rockies finally began playing ball. She passed away in May of '94. I miss her. Anyway have you seen Meat Loaf "Paradise by the Dashboard Light?"
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I wish I had every single one of those Topps baseball cards!
Hey! I'm a brown eyed kid! And play center field. Played this and got a double on the first play 👍
I am a big baseball fan. I played myself when I was young.
Who doesn't miss the good old days of baseball?
Good old days? Like when it was just whites only? Dude no thanks.
Put me in sir!!! The mighty 8 is ready!!!
My 10 ur old daughter loves this song and it 2023
Best baseball song ever
I miss it! I'm 63 and remember my first game I played and the first Tigers game I went to In Detroit When Willie Horton and Al Kaline played Willie put one on the steps of the library across the street over left field!!!! We sat in seats and the ball went over our head and out over the roof!!! I was 7 years old
From Detroit, love Tigers; but also Cubs! Always wanted an I-94 playoff!!!
Rest In paradise CJ & Nolan Smith 01/09/09 OUR ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD!!!
I am not a big baseball fan but this song came into my mind when I found out last week that I was going to be fighting with lung cancer - "put me in, coach, I'm ready to play!"
God Bless and sending prayers
An attitude like that is half the battle. Best of luck to you, sir.
@ T C - Hey, Stay with it ! Remember, you are due to pitch batting practice at spring training . . . 2024 !
Keep your head up and your eye on the ball. You got this. I love you! God Bless!
How have you been lately, brother?
John Fogerty is a damn national treasure! 😊😊😊😊😊
True dat
The two times I've seen him live may be the best concerts I've ever seen.
Comment of the year! 🙌🤟
And a heck of a nice guy. Was a passenger on my shuttle at Winstar.
Someone get Nicolas Cage
I love baseball, coming from the midwest it's the sport I played and followed growing up. ⚾
!960, Bill Mazaroski's homerun won Pirates championship!!
Such an uplifting song "We're born again, there's new grass on the field." Remember it's possible in the game of life too.
I love the umps smiling at 0:35 The sun came out today...
Baseball is still alive in Philadelphia .. We love our Phillies
Classic
John Fogerty has such perfect lyrics in every song he's ever made.
John Fogerty never got the recognition he really deserved.
My Dad taught me to be quiet while His Tigers were broadcasted by Ernie Harewell, I seen Al Kaline make a shoestring catch to beat the Yankees at home in Aug of 1962. Though Al broke his collarbone : it made me a life long fan ❤️❤️❤️❤️
ROCK ROLL JOHN FOGERTY CENTERFLELD MUSIC 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😀😀✌️✌️👍👍
PLAAAAAAAY BALL!
To a baseball fan, the greatest song ever written. It still makes the hair stand up on my arms. Thank you John, and thank you to all the players that made this America's game.
LMFAO
Agreed!! Miss it so much, Still brings be back instantly to the baseball summers when I hear this. Can almost smell the air on the diamond
This was always one of my favorite songs and I'm 52 this makes feel like an old fart but l still love this song big time
AMEN Brother! We don’t take advantage of life’s simple pleasures enough.
Never been a fan of watching baseball. "Talkin' Baseball (Willie, Mickey & The Duke)" is the better baseball song.
Hey, hey, hey, it's opening day!! (2022) 😄
Baseball is the greatest game ever. I love seeing the old players- I’ve been lucky to meet several of them- mantle, larsen, Aaron, feller,and my neighbor who played for Detroit and Milwaukee/ Atlanta- frank bolling-when the tigers run out he runs to second- ! They are all gone now -
Song always gets me in the mood for the start of the baseball season!
WELL, I am 81 and have loved baseball since I was in 5th grade! Always a Brooklyn Dodgers fan until they moved West and I got married here in the East and now I have become a Phillies fan - GO PHILLIES!! LOVE LISTENING TO JOHN SING CENTERFIELD!! Thank you Mr. Fogerty! :)
@ S R - GREAT SONG . . see you at Citizens' Bank Park sometime !
I replied to John Fogerty's question but something happened to stop it all..................??
@John Fogerty OH WOW!!! Is this really John Fogerty!!?? I enjoy all your songs!! Thank you!! :)
@John Fogerty Sure was! :)
@John Fogerty Hi! Phillies are going to the World Series!!!!! I am thrilled!!!! Just played 'Centerfield' again!! :) :) :)
Day before Opening Day 2021 and I just had to hear this song!!
I hear almost every time I go to Walgreens
@@barrybonds9558 they usually go to CVS. Now I'm going to Walgreens.👍
This is the right way to welcome the new season!
Well, anyone could understand the way you feel.
Son played centerfield, song meant a lot love it!!!
RIP dad
La La La La La Bamba!!
Best baseball song ever. I was just a kid
When Larry Doby and Jackie Robinson we’re young rookies. This song surely belongs in the National Archives.
Paul J.
Best baseball song EVER! Should be played at all parks before 1st pitch! ⚾
PERIOD!!!!!
This is like my 153th time watching this song never gets old
How can you not be romantic about baseball
Happy 90th Birthday to Willie Mays, the greatest center fielder of all time!
WE LOVE YOU, WILLIE!!!!!
He's really one of the last relics from the old era of baseball will be a sad day when he passes
@hashachar70: Yes, Willie Mays was the greatest! Who could possibly make "the catch" except the say-hey kid? I feel absolutely blessed to have seen Mr. Mays play at Candlestick. Dad and me, loving baseball when it was a game...
Willie Mays was what baseball is about.
@@danielshays7161 Mays was such a great that the Giants took out an ad thanking the fans in the Minneapolis Tribune (he played in Minneapolis for the AAA Millers) when they called him up.
Byron Buxton of the Minnesota Twins has cited him as every bit as much an inspiration as his own mentor, Torii Hunter, and Twins legend Kirby Puckett.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I’m head coaching my kids first grade baseball! Tip my hat to all coaches!
This is when baseball was great. Best song, feel good
CLASSIC! PLAY BALL!
Best Baseball Song !
This song will never be lost, this song should be played on the first day of baseball.
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This is honestly the greatest sports song in America
Yes--right after The Star Spangled Banner.
@@marycampbell242 naw thats trash. Do you even know how many verses are in the star spangled banner? You know francis Scott was a slave owner? Like it also fuckin blows. Also talkin baseball is the greatest sport song.
F__k the Star Spangled Banner!
I love this music I remember listening to this from when I was 8 I would watch 1994 movie little big league
April 2nd is opening day for the Durham Bulls! YEAH❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I love the riff on this song
You know its Spring when rhey start playing this song.
⚾ It's in my DNA, Thank You Daddy 💝 ⚾
0:13 I love the synchronized throwing
A hug to you Americans for this great song.
A hug to you directly from Sertãozinho SP Brazil
Our pleasure our baseball fan .
I LOVE BASEBALL
Opening day 2023! ⚾️
Hard not to smile when you here this song
It has the kind of vibrance that makes you glad to be alive
We should take a moment to appreciate the fact that this was 20 years before CZcams, all of this baseball footage wasn't so easy to come by.
My dad used to take me to the Denver Bears and buy me barbeque sandwiches and frozen malts. Thanks, Dad!
For the first time, me and so many others can say it's the Opening Day of our beloved WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS Rangers!! PLAY BALL!!! ⚾️
I maintain that this is the greatest Love Song ever written. Covers a multitude of the things we love. Sunshine, new grass, playing games, a chance to shine, the support of our fans. Et. Al.
But, the plethora of baseball terms that put a positive and lighthearted spin when applied to romantic Love, is a good, less awkward shorthand.
1:58 when there’s a rain delay 😂