I love the lyrics to this song. Before the internet became big, this is exactly how I kept up with the game (aside from watching or listening to it, of course): by reading newspapers and books and whatever else I could get my hands on.
I love the lyrics to this song. Before the internet became big, this is exactly how I kept up with the game (aside from watching or listening to it, of course): by reading newspapers and books and whatever else I could get my hands on.
Thanks! Love starting my Sunday with some Baseball Project! They are a beautiful mash up of the Young Fresh Fellows, Dream Syndicate, Zuzu Petals, R.E.M., and (often) Josh Kantor (Fenway’s organist) … and I finally got to see them live this year and they were muy, muy awesome.
And, hooray for box scores! I love digging them out of old newspapers — the stats and order of the teams in the box have changed over the years — but how wonderful to be able to “watch” a game that was 100-odd years ago unfold in your imagination thanks to whomever put that first box score down on a piece of paper.
Supposedly Henry Chadwick invented the box score. The story is he adapted the already existing cricket scoring system to create the first box score. FYI
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Chadwick was a genius. If everything we know about him is true, he deserves the title of “Father of Baseball.”
I may have to look into their tour schedule to see if I can catch them! I haven’t heard a lot of their stuff, but what I’ve heard so far, I love.
I LOVE this song! I saw them live in 2014 – they’re awesome!
I did a little poking around, and it doesn’t look like they have any upcoming tour dates scheduled. But I’m definitely going to keep an eye out, considering these positive reviews I’m getting!