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unusual facts about Say Hey




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John Rosengren

His six include Blades of Glory: The True Story of a Young Team Bred to Win, which chronicles a season spent with a successful Minnesota high school hockey team; Hammerin' Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid: The Year that Changed Baseball Forever, an account of the 1973 baseball season; and ghost-wrote Esera Tuaolo's aubiography Alone in the Trenches: My Life as a Gay Man in the NFL.

Life, Death, Love and Freedom

In the liner notes to his 2010 box set On the Rural Route 7609, Mellencamp said of Life, Death, Love and Freedom: "I would put that album, that collection of songs, up against any record ever made. In my mind that record is as good as just about any record ever made. That's a good feeling, to be able to finally say, hey, after nearly two dozen albums, I finally made a record that I think is as good as anything out there."

Strangers No Longer

The song's opening line "They say: hey here we are in beautiful Texas", is reported to come from the opening of Game 3 of the 2005 World Series played in Houston Texas.