The Marquard Glide Sheet Music

During the early 1900’s most ball players had regular jobs during the off-season. Star baseball players if given the chance would supplement their winter income by appearing in vaudeville. The vaudeville salary was much more than a player earned from baseball something five times their baseball salary. Working with experienced vaudeville stars that did most of the acting, many players would do a baseball monologue, recited poems such as ‘Casey at the Bat,’ and sometimes did a little singing or dancing. Some of the biggest names in baseball appeared on the vaudeville stage including; Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Rube Marquard, Chris Mathewson and others not as well-known.

On July 3, 1912, New York Giants Rube Marquard set a modern day record by winning his 19th consecutive game. After the season, the future Hall of Fame pitcher teamed up with "The Hottest Girl in Town,” vaudeville headliner Blossom Seeley, to perform a skit called "Breaking The Record or The 19th Straight." The act featured a song called "Baseball" Which features a singing solo by Marguard that ended with a dancing duet with Seeley. Another song-and-dance number was performed alone by Seeley that was called "Ragtime Melodies."

The skit also featured a song that Marquard and Seeley collaborated on the music and lyrics called "The Marquard Glide" which celebrates the pitcher's career. The lyrics were written by Rube Marquard & Thos. J Gray, music by Blossom Seeley & W.Ray Walker. The sheet music published by Jerome H. Remick & Co. features a watercolored picture of Rube Marquard warming up on the sidelines, and Blossom Seeley to the right. The inside sheet music has an alternate title that reads "That Marquard Glide."

Marquard and Blossom Seeley who was married to theatrical manager Joseph Kane were evolved in scandalous affair. In 1913 after Seeley's divorce she married Marquard. That same year the vaudeville couple came out new act called "The Suffragette Pitcher" which required Rube Marquard to get into a woman's dress in order to pitch for Blossoms all-woman team.

"The Marquard Glide" Sheet Music


"That Marquard Glide" Sheet Music	"Those Ragtime Melodies" Sheet Music

"The Marquard Glide" Sheet Music" Lyrics -1912
Lyrics - By Rube Marquard & Thos. J Gray Music by Blossom Seeley & W.Ray Walker

All you fans All you fans Clap your hand Clap your hands
When you hear the tune that I'm going to croon,
For it's there, It's a bear Right from the home plate;
Gee! boys but it's great! Here she goes On your toes

We'll do that Marquard glide yes, that Marquard glide,
Matty, Myers and McGraw; Murray, Snodgrass and Dewore
Herzog, too! Flitchand Doyle Make that hand of music toil
Oh, that Marquard glide! oh, that Marquard glide!
He's going down to second, watch him slide!
He's king on the pitchers box! Stood up through all the knocks,
Had it on those "Red Sox" You can bet all your rocks on Reuben!
He's some pitcher, so we'll all do that Marquard, All do that Marquard,
All do that Marquard glide We'll do that glide.

Take your place take your place On your base On your base.
Just you hear that band, don't it sound just grand!
Hear them shout Hit it out It makes a big score;
It makes you want more; Feel the sway Come this way

We'll do that Marquard glide yes, that Marquard glide,
Matty, Myers and McGraw; Murray, Snodgrass and Dewore
Herzog, too! Flitchand Doyle Make that hand of music toil
Oh, that Marquard glide! oh, that Marquard glide!
He's going down to second, watch him slide!
He's king on the pitchers box! Stood up through all the knocks,
Had it on those "Red Sox" You can bet all your rocks on Reuben!
He's some pitcher, so we'll all do that Marquard, All do that Marquard,
All do that Marquard glide We'll do that glide.

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