C90:Songs that are either about Baseball or mention Baseball

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

Henry Wong - The Ballad of Gaylord Perry

In Wu-Tang Clan's "Clan in da Front," GZA makes a great baseball analogy in the last verse.

wtf @ the dice-K EP!

I'm guessing EMI Special Products (the Dice-K label) is one of the major label subdivisions that creates made-to-order limited edition comps, all of in-house artists, handling the packaging, licensing, etc. I think these things are usually made for conventions, little generic themed CDs to put in gift bags in the conventioneers' hotel rooms when they check in.

The Fiery Furnaces - 1917

Crooklyn - Crooklyn Dodgers

Earth Opera - "The Red Sox Are Winning"

Steve Goodman, "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request"

Skeletons, "That'll Work" (my girl likes to watch them cubs/knows every player and what each one does)

Steve Goodman also has Go Cubs Go and a version of Take Me Out to the Ballgame

"The Ball Game," by Sister Winona Carr
"The Carl Yastrzemski Song," by Jess Cain
"Joltin' Joe DiMaggio," by Les Brown & His Orchestra
"Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)," by The Treniers
"Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?" by Count Basie & His Orchestra

Hold Steady - "How a Resurrection Really Feels"

and the Saint Paul Saints they waved me through

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.

i'll assume it's better than the peter gammons LP that features gammons along with bronson arroyo, jonathan papelbon, kevin youkilis and, of course, juliana hatfield.

I do know that Warren Zevon had a song about Bill Lee once

and there's the willard grant conspiracy's "eephus pitch" (which was mentioned somewhere upthread)

I didn't buy it, but I found this classical album in the used bin this weekend that fetured narration by the late Willie "Pops" Stargell

someone find this pls

Why narrate a symphony?

The dean believes that narrated works of classical music draw new audiences to the concert hall and fulfill a "need in the United States and beyond for American art that tells our story to ourselves and to the people around the world who both admire and despise us." A pianist by training, he had experimented successfully with a narrated symphony in the early 1980s, when he commissioned an orchestral work to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and talked Willie Stargell, then the Pittsburgh Pirates' first baseman, into narrating it.

Speaking of which, isn't there also some kind of Roberto Clemente LP for the benefit of Nicaraguan earthquake victims? Though I'm not sure if he sings on it, or talks on it, or just has his picture on the cover, or what.

Nah, looks like it was issued by the Pirates after he died:

http://www.goantiques.com/detail,roberto-clemente-memorial,745362.html?source=VYZ4474

And here's a later CD in memory of him:

http://www.amazon.com/Roberto-Clemente-Tributo-Musical-Tribute/dp/B000007SGB

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

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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.