Why “Sweet Caroline” is played after 7 and a half at every game at Fenway.
She had noticed ”Sweet Caroline” was used at other sporting events, and she decided to send the sweetness over the Fenway speakers.
The song was picked up by fans, and the more it caught on, the more superstitious Tobey became about playing it.
Tobey would play the song somewhere between the seventh and ninth innings if the team was ahead, depending on whether she felt the team was going to win.
She didn’t go by any specific margin of runs, but rather who the opponent was, and her gut instincts.
”I actually considered it like a good luck charm,” Tobey says. ”Even if they were just one run [ahead], I might still do it. It was just a feel.”
In 2002, when new management took over at the park, they requested that Tobey play the song during the eighth inning of every game.
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