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KAISER: So really, any idiot can sing the-there it is, yeah. KAISER: (In unison) So good, so good, so good. KAISER: And since that time, I've gotten to the point where I started choking down the sound at two different parts in the song so you could hear the fans singing. It hadn't yet become the 'Sweet Caroline' that it is today. KAISER: My first year, I played it almost every game, but not every game. By the time she started, 'Sweet Caroline' was already a tradition, but it was Megan who took it to the next level. This is Megan's third season with the team. ORLEAN: Like I said, everyone has a theory. MEGAN KAISER (Music Programmer): There was a fellow who works in this department before I came who had a daughter named Caroline, and when she was born, they played it as kind of a celebratory anthem to this new little girl. I started with Megan Kaiser, who programs the music at Fenway.

And I just know President Kennedy's daughter Caroline, OK, is from Massachusetts, but I have no idea, OK, at all, all right, where the connection is, why the eighth inning and what have you. BOB DAKOTO (Tour Guide): It does strike me as odd, and I'm a-really, a researcher. Take Bob Dakoto(ph), a retired teacher who now gives tours at Fenway. ORLEAN: Everyone at Fenway has a theory or a theory about the lack of theories about why 'Sweet Caroline' is sung here at every single game. ORLEAN: 'Sweet Caroline' by Neil Diamond, mid-tempo, middlebrow, middle-aged, and yet, it's the sing-along anthem of Fenway Park for reasons to be named later. NEIL DIAMOND: (Singing) Where it began, I can't begin to know it. ORLEAN: Of course, every baseball game includes singing: the national anthem, 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game.' But at Fenway Park, the mystery isn't the singing. For instance, why do people in Boston boil their meat? Why are they so fond of whale embroidery on their pants? And then there's the singing in the middle of the eighth inning at Fenway Park.

I've been living in Boston for two years, and I've come across many of those mysteries here. That's where commentator Susan Orlean found one tradition that got her wondering. The New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox play three games, beginning tonight, to decide who's division champ.

Major-league baseball's regular season ends this weekend.

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