A few tunes to get you in the mood for baseball:
The Baseball Project: “Past Time”
From this baseball-loving supergroup’s first album, Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails:
Chuck Brodsky: “Letters in the Dirt”
About being a kid and believing in baseball heroes. The last couple lines might put a lump in your throat.
The Baseball Project: “Harvey Haddix”
A tribute to the Pirate who threw 12 perfect innings, only to lose the game in the 13th.
Chuck Brodsky: “Bonehead Merkle”
Amazing story of how the Giants lost the pennant in the strangest of ways in 1908.
The Baseball Project: “Don’t Call Them Twinkies”
Every baseball franchise should have an anthem this great written in its honor.
We don’t buy our titles/But we still won two World Series…
Pat Donohue: “Touch ‘Em All”
An homage to Kirby Puckett from Minnesotan Pat Donohue.
The Baseball Project: “Chin Music”
Like an old time counterculture sing-along, but with a valid point about wimpy modern baseball.
We’re gonna get high and inside
Bonus Spoken Word Cuts:
Dan St. Paul: “The First Baseball Game”
Comedy bit from the Bob & Tom radio show.
Paul Schersten: “Ballpark Names Fail to Impress”
(from NPR’s All Things Considered)
Frank DeFord: “Aren’t We Tired of Watching the Pitch Count?”
(from NPR’s Morning Edition)
David Maraniss: Clemente: The Story of a True Baseball Hero
(from NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday)
Every Moment Has A Song 