"She was the first to use the organ to react to the game itself. She is the reason fans sing "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" when a visiting pitcher is pulled from the game. She made a stodgy, centuries-old instrument suddenly funny and irreverent. She invented walk-up music, for heaven's sake. By having a nearly infinite mental songbook and an astonishingly accurate ear, Nancy pulled the sound of the organ from the teetering edge of a forgotten, vaudevillian yesteryear and created a new kind of nostalgia for baseball fans -- one that we didn't know we really needed until now, baseball's silent summer..."
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