Former Mets organist Jane Jarvis has died

This name will mean nothing to many of you, but today all Mets fans shoud grieve the passing of Jane Jarvis.

After eight years playing for the Braves at County Stadium in Milwaukee, she was a fixture at Shea Stadium from 1964 to 1979, performing a repertory that mixed jazz staples like Charlie Parker’s “Scrapple From the Apple” with more conventional fare like “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” and “Meet the Mets.”

The NY Times has a full obit.

If you never had the pleasure of hearing her work, believe me you would much prefer it to the modern day barrage of sound.  Every now and then the Mets will bust out some organ about an hour before a game and it’s awesome.