I teased out a little more of the quote, which appears in several books about baseball:

Anyway, in the fifth game of the Series the Royal Rooters started singing Tessie for no particular reason at all, and the Red Sox won. They must have figured it was a good-luck charm, because from then on you could hardly play ball they were singing Tessie so damn loud. Tessie was a real big popular song in those days. You remember it don't you? "Tessie, you make me feel so badly / Why don't you turn around / Tessie, you know I love you madly / Babe, my heart weighs about a pound." ... Only instead of singing, "Tessie, you know I love you madly," they'd sing special lyrics to each of the Red Sox players: like "Jimmy, you know I love you madly." And for us Pirates they'd change it a little. Like when Honus Wagner came up to bat they'd sing: "Honus, why do you hit so badly? / Take a back seat and sit down / Honus, at bat you look so sadly / Hey, why don't you get out of town." Sort of got on your nerves after a while. And before we knew what happened, we'd lost the World Series.

The sheet music can be seen at The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music. (Click for a PDF.)


TESSIE, YOU ARE THE ONLY, ONLY, ONLY.
Words and music by Will R Anderson
New York, M. Witmark & Sons ©1902
Sung by Horace Wright in John C. Fisher's Stupendous Production "The Silver Slipper".

1. Tessie is a maiden with a sparkling eye.
Tessie is a maiden with a laugh.
Tessie doesn't know the meaning of a sigh.
Tessie's lots of fun and full of chaff.
But sometimes we have a little quarrel, we two.
Tessie always turns her head away.
Then it's up to me to do as all boys do,
So I take her hand in mine and say:

CHORUS: Tessie, you make me feel so badly.
Why don't you turn around?
Tessie, you know I love you madly.
Babe, my heart weighs about a pound.
Don't blame me if I ever doubt you.
You know I wouldn't live without you.
Tessie, you are the only, only, only.

2. Tessie has a parrot that she loves quite well.
Polly's just a-learning how to woo.
Tessie tells him ev'rything she has to tell.
Polly thinks he knows a thing or two.
Tessie gave a party at her home one night.
Polly said he'd like to sing a song.
Tessie thought she'd never seen a bird so bright
When Polly started off in accents strong: CHORUS


[You can also hear a recording by Dan W. Quinn The Internet Archive.]