Bob Conroy and I are putting the finishing touches on a new CD. One of the songs is The Day I Played Base Ball (sic). We got it from Sheehan & Jones' "The Ash Box Inspector's Songster" of 1879. The singer's name was Pat Rooney and the words are similar to (but not the same) as those posted by Reiver#2 above.

All the best,
Dan Milner