It begins with a few brief notes from an organ you might hear at a ball park. Then we hear a crowd apparently getting stirred up just as a game is about to get underway. And then we hear Bob welcoming us, and introducing this show’s theme:

Tonight we’re going to head out to the fields of dreams, schemes and themes, the ever widening diamond, to take a look at the national past time, baseball.

Bob then begins to recite a poem:

Nelly Kelly loved baseball games,
Knew the players, knew all their names,
You could see her there ev’ry day,
Shout “Hurray!” when they’d play.
Her boy friend by the name of Joe
Said, “To Coney Isle, dear, let’s go,”
Then Nelly started to fret and pout,
And to him I heard her shout.

Source: Jeffrey Rubin, From Insults to Respect

This article details an episode of Dylan’s “Theme Time Radio Hour.” Does anyone know what piece the “poem” listed above is from? I guarantee you know it and have probably sung the famous verse a time or two…

One comment on “Bob Dylan on Baseball

  • Brian Joura

    I wonder if the Minnesota native Dylan is happy with the news that the Twins are for sale.

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