C90:Songs that are either about Baseball or mention Baseball

Beastie Boys "got mad hits like they was Rod Carew" on "Sure Shot"

And possibly the entire ouvres (or however you spell it) of:

The Outfield
Babe Ruth
Joe Jackson (shoes on cover of first album, hence SHOELESS Joe.)
3rd Bass
Throneberry

Babe Ruth's (*First Base*, *Stealin' Home*m *Grand Slam*) and the Outfield's (*Play Deep,* *Extra Innings*, *Playing the Field*) albums usually had baseball-themed titles, too.

And I've noticed local bands around New York named Carlton Fisk and Rollie Fingers; not sure whether they've recorded anything. Also, Charlie Pride and Nelly both played minor-league baseball, I think. And Black Jack McDowell had a grunge band named Stick Figure, and other baseball players (Bill Slayback and Johnny Bench, maybe?) have recorded records of their own. Also, here's another useful link:

http://www.bostonbaseball.com/whitesox/baseball_extras/music.html

scott radinsky was in a hardcore band called scared straight.

Dave Frishberg.

The Styrenes, "He Was a Loser" (about the Detroit Tigers)
A.R.E. Weapons, "Bad News" (about the Bad News Bears)
Northern State -- almost every song on their debut EP (they mention
Derek Jeter, Ron Guidry, and playing hot corner on their softball
team among other things; baseball seems to be their default
topic.)
Beastie Boys -- whichever song talked about doing it like this,
doing it like that, doing it with a wiffle ball bat; whichever
song they pronounced "aluminum" bat wrong in.

"Paul Revere"?

plus he makes fun of someone by calling him "Royce the 5'2"," and I know that's about that vertically challenged rapper but if it also ain't an unconscious reference to Royce Clayton I'd be v.surprised

what is up with Clayton's hair this year? dammm

Wow, Lin Brehmer! Ok, Lin - Cubs or Sox?

The Mendoza Line

Maurice and Mac - Backfield in Motion

Or is it perhaps an American Football reference - another sport no-one else in the world is interested in?

But to get back in the spirit, Kool Keith's "The Girls Don't Like the Job" tosses in a quick excerpt of the organ at a baseball game (no idea what those unique-sounding organs are called); and for this Pittsburgh native, "We Are Family" is inextricably connected with the Bucs ...

you can add to that:

Vida Blue (phish side project)

Honus Wagner (pretty good nyc rock band, circa mid '90s, that featured rock publicist jim merlis on bass and novelist thomas beller on drums)

Ha ha, no, it's pretty simple, what they mean when they say "the rest of the world" is the rest of the world. Speaking of empires - Mexico, Cuba? As for Japan, well I could mention General McArthur but basically they like any old shite over there, they even play Rugby!

also Pearl Jam's 'Bushleaguer'
"He's not a leader he's a Texas leaguer, swinging for the fence, got lucky on a strike" (About George W Bush)

Does anyone else hear that? 'cause the only lyrics I find on a search show something different and look pretty wrong on some other lines.

The B'z, "Real Thing Shakes" -- real good faux AC/DC from Japan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz0HgSvc_t0

Now available in the United States on the otherwise not especially rocking Daisuke Matsuzaka: Music Of The Mound eight-song mini-LP, compiled by EMI Music Special Products and put out via the Red Sox Foundation and the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau. I'm not making this up. There is also a song called "Gyro Ball" that does not list the artist, and a sort of bubblegum Japanese folk-pop thing called "My Way" by Def Tech that also has a video up on youtube and which quotes "Give It Away" by the Chili Peppers. Plus contributions by Ugly Duckling and Ak'sent featuring Beenie Man, plus LL Cool J's great "I Can't Live Without My Radio" and Duran Duran's pretty good (one of my favorite songs by them actually) "The Wild Boys." Not being a Red Sox fan, I don't understand this thing at all -- do these songs all get played at the game, when Matsuzaka comes to the mound or something? I wonder if they ever put out an EP decicated to Luis Tiant's hesitation pitch. I do know that Warren Zevon had a song about Bill Lee once. Anyway, whatver. "Real Thing Shakes" is pretty rocking, if you ask me.

Not his best moment, but Gene Clark's "Home Run King" from Two Sides to Every Story.

posted on chitlin circuit soul thread earlier this year:

Also listening tonight to 2004 chitlin-circuit cdbaby soul (as in: everything from blues to disco to absolutely unabasedly schmoove-jazzed schmaltz) by Bobby Wayne; "This House is Haunted" sounds the best so far, but "Homestead Greys" (despite sounding curiously singer-songwriterly) rules by virtue of being the most blatant Negro League tribute I've ever heard:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/bobbywayne

Bob Dylan--Catfish

Diamond Cuts - Grand Slam" Vol. IV. Another musically diverse compilation, featuring 20 songs, brought to you by the non-profit group Hungry for Music. This 4th volume hits a grand slam, with songs about Bill Veeck, Mark McGwire, Denny McLain, Fred Merkle, Max Patkin, Earl Weaver, Christy Mathewson, Jack Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, reflections on little league, baseball as a metaphor for a broken relationship, bleacher bums and more!

There's a whole bunch of Diamond Cuts cds (with profits going to causes like buying music instruments for schools and stuff) available as well as other baseball related ones here:

http://www.cooperstownmusic.com/songs.htm

Kramer - The Greenberg Variations

Whatever happened to the Leaving Trains and their singer/songwriter Falling James Moreland?

I wonder if this site is up to date-
http://www.theleavingtrains.com/merch.html

"Reggie Jackson" Philistines Jr.

A nailed on classic.I promise

Baseball Project at Iota in Arlington outside W. DC tonight. Peter Buck hurt his back or something, so its just Steve Wynn and the others. Should I go?

Not the same thing, but I found a $2 copy of this today:

http://www.mfooz.com/bblog/wp-content/uploads/hoyt400.jpg

"On this 1963 LP, Hall of Famer Waite Hoyt spins yarns during rain delays over his long career as Reds broadcaster."

Awesome

I'm a huge Texas Rangers fan, so of course I have to mention Merle Haggard's "That's the Way Baseball Go," based on some words of wisdom from Ron Washington.

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a1786444182_2.jpg

PUIG DESTROYER - ONE MAN, FIVE TOOLS

lots of songs from the musical "damn yankees," including "six months out of every year," "the game," "heart" and "shoeless joe from hannibal, mo."

have never caught The Baseball Project live, will do so at the SABR con in Chicago next Thursday. Buck and Mills both in the schedule blurb, that's not likely, is it?

Who knows, Buck used to tour regularly with them, then stopped for a bit.

crowd loved em

http://sabr.org/latest/sabr-45-join-us-chicago-concert-baseball-project

Did you? No Peter Buck I see, just Mills.

How was new Mills song about pitchers putting stuff on the baseball

Ben Gibbard, baseball fan

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/effectively-wild-episode-1259-i-will-follow-you-into-the-park/

A friend gave me a copy of this a few months ago:

http://phildellio.tripod.com/moseby.jpg

Still haven't played it, but I feel a strange reassurance knowing it's around.

I've always liked this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44bNOEUrYk0

I have no interest in baseball and very little in country music, but still love this track from last year by Caroline Spence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5EqxrWTEyI

The Baseball Project is in Cleveland this weekend for All-Star Game festivities, playing a show at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Sunday. (Why they aren't playing in front of the ballpark is a mystery, there have been concerts there before.) But they're "warming" up by playing Saturday night at a small local bar, The Happy Dog. The show was announced by the band on their FB page and tickets were only available via sending PayPal to the bar owner. That place is gonna be packed.

https://twitter.com/TheRealYLT/status/1283105495449034762

oops

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— Yo La Tengo (@TheRealYLT) July 14, 2020

playlist (he's stretching on many of these):

https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/94697

nice start from Albert Brooks though

Like "Raised Eyebrows" (which I love)? I need that one explained...

it's in the adjoining sleeve image: "Ball Field Productions"

I was unaware of Lee Maye's recording career until Ira brought it up.

The comedy bits are not listed, incl a great Jerry Lewis snail joke that has no baseball content.