October means playoff baseball and the World Series, so what better “Classic Track” to talk about this month than John Fogerty and “Centerfield”? Not only does 2010 mark the song’s 25th anniversary, it also earned the supreme honor this past summer of being formally “inducted” into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.—it plays there ’round the clock.

With its references to Willie Mays, Ty Cobb, Joe DiMaggio and the Mighty Casey, “Centerfield” is the rare…