Three Country Songs About Baseball That Will Make You Want To Hit A Home Run [Video]

Country music is very American. Baseball is the American pastime. Country music is about storytelling, dads and sons, simple pleasures, and the blue-collar way of rural life. So they do kind of go together. For that reason, we selected some of the best country music songs that celebrate baseball for your consideration. They are from leading country artists. They understand that baseball is deeply rooted in our culture, our love of creating sports stars to idolize, and the belief that anyone, on any given day, can step up to the plate and be a hero, if only for an inning.

Being very familiar with the Boston Red Sox, I know first-hand the thrill and the heartbreak that baseball packs. (If you recall the stunning sixth game of the 1986 World Series between the Sox and the New York Mets, you, too, know what I mean.) It’s like a microcosm of …