What's the deal with "Sweet Caroline" always playing at Sox games at Fenway?

Question

I don't remember it from when I was a kid, but at every game I've been to the last few years, it has been played like it's ALWAYS been played. When did it start, and what's the significance?

Answer 1

It's all about the refrain and the 'Baa baa baa', as it were...It is just like in St. Louis how they use to always play the Budweiser song....or in Baltimore playing John Denver's 'Thank God I'm a Country Boy'...no more, no less....It is for fun, as much as the inane music the players come up to bat or to the mound...

Answer 2

Its an awsome tradition...and a great song that most fans like to sing along