<P> Baseball legends mentioned in the song include Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays, and Ty Cobb, all of them center fielders . Fogerty quoted a line from Chuck Berry's "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" in the first verse: "rounding third, he was heading for home ." The second verse refers to Casey from the poem "Casey at the Bat". The final verse quotes longtime Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants broadcaster Lon Simmons, whose home run call was "Tell it goodbye!" </P> <P> In a radio interview with Dan Patrick on October 8, 2015, Fogerty mentioned that he always pictured Jackie Robinson as the "brown eyed handsome man" who was "rounding third, headed for home". </P> <P> "Centerfield" reached No. 44 in the US Hot 100 . Since it became available digitally in the 21st century, it has sold 734,000 downloads in US . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Chart (1985) </Th> <Th> Peak position </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM) </Td> <Td> 20 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> US Billboard Hot 100 </Td> <Td> 44 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> US Billboard Top Rock Tracks </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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