RBI's "empty bases" music in the movie Swing Girls

[Reds]

after a little research of my own, I believe that combat march is more of a generic term used for many different cheers during japanese baseball games...I really only found two pages that really had any music similar to the RBI theme....and they were from the same server.

but I did find this

[malnuboy]

I've spent some time researching this myself lately and have found some startling news. Apparently this "combat march" traced back to its earliest roots is an adaptation of a song some blacksmith used to whistle while he smithed his black. The only other thing my search yielded was that this "blacksmith" was olde.

small world.

[Baines]

Malnu is on a roll tonight.

[TempoGL]

so i guess it goes without saying that the official japanese baseball team of dee nee are the Hiroshima Carp

[broiler]

the barney theme song is to the exact tune of this old man he played one. 

[RotJ]

Wow.  Great info, malnuboy.  I'm sure a lot of those team songs were originally traditional songs or old pop songs, with the lyrics changed to something team-specific if there are any lyrics.  That's true for a lot of the various fight songs sung and music played at sporting events in the west, so it's probably the same in Japan.

Also, found this midi at a Carp site.  A bit more energetic, this one is.

Supplemental links:
CD of March songs
(midi version)