Billy Joel to Perform National Anthem at Game Three of World Series

PEOPLE reports that New York native Billy Joel will perform the National Anthem at Game Three of the 2015 World series, a rivalry between the Kansas City Royals and the New York Mets.

Joel performed The Star-Spangled Banner the past two times the Mets have played in the World Series, including a performance in 1986, when the Mets went on the win the championship, and in 2000 when the Mets and the Yankees faced off in an exciting "subway" World Series.

Billy Joel has had 33 Top-40 hits and 23 Grammy nominations since signing his first solo recording contract in 1972. In 1990, he was presented with a Grammy Legend Award. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992, Joel was presented with the Johnny Mercer Award, the organization's highest honor, in 2001. In 1999 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and has received the Recording Industry Association of America Diamond Award, presented for albums that have sold more than 10 million copies. In 2013 he was among those receiving 36th Annual Kennedy Center Honors. Joel collaborated with Twyla Tharp on MOVIN' OUT, which ran for three years at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre.

In 2010 Joel released "The Last Play at Shea." The intersecting histories of a city, a team and a music legend are examined in a documentary feature film that charts both the ups and downs of the New York Mets and the life and career of Long Island native Billy Joel, the last performer to play Shea Stadium before its demolition in 2008.

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