Clean version of `Empire State of Mind' for Series

Oct 27th, 2009 - Boston

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Clean version of `Empire State of Mind' for Series

NEW YORK—Whoa, baseball fans!

Check out the lyrics of "Empire State of Mind," the hit song Jay-Z and fellow New Yorker Alicia Keys plan to perform at Thursday night's World Series Game 2 at Yankee Stadium.

Don't freak. Major League Baseball says you'll hear a more wholesome rendition.

"There's a clean version that goes out on radio, and that's what they'll use. It doesn't have bad words," Marla Miller, MLB's senior vice president of special events, said Tuesday.

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