Looking ahead, Faust admits she'll miss interacting with fans and performing before 40,000 people.

Pictures of fans and their families grace the wall behind where Nancy Faust plays the organ at White Sox baseball games.

"I kind of laugh to myself. My husband, Joe, and my son, Eric, have endured countless days and nights of my practicing at home so that I could come here with my best act, so that I could go to work, and I think, I really wasn't going to work," says Faust. "I had them fooled. What I really did, I wasn't going to work, I was leaving the house and going straight to a grand party. This is a grand party."

It's a party Faust has enjoyed with three generations of the team's fans.

"I've followed generations in terms of births and deaths and marriages and divorces," says Faust. "You know you see it all happen, and the sad thing is that I'll come back in the spring and I'll find that some of the old timers are no longer with us. But then I am greeted by the new babies, too. You see life happening right before your eyes."

At the end of this season, the Chicago White Sox will mark Faust's retirement by naming the organ booth after her. Next spring, although there will be another organist in the booth, for long-time fans, it will be a different ball game.