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Not sure about most folks, but I think it's great that there is baseball music floating around out there, besides the token "Talking Baseball" or "Centerfield." How many times do we have to hear these cliche tracks at the baseball park, on a live radio broadcast or on television? When is enough enough? If I were to never hear this song in 100 years, I would die a happy man.

As some of you know, I prefer minor league baseball. I am currently working on a batch of lenses devoted to the different minor league baseball systems and how it works. While surfing the net last week, I stumbled upon this band on Amazon Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails [Explicit]The Baseball Project.

This band is the brainchild of baseball fanatics and musical greats Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, Minus 5, Robyn Hitchock) and Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate). Peter Buck, influential pioneer guitarist of R.E.M. is also a member, as this band pays tribute to their heroes. Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson and Ted Williams get the royal treatment on this first release, as well as a few lesser known people and events.

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Artist : The Baseball Project

Title : Volume 1 - Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails

Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails

Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails

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Rock n' roll vets Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5, R.E.M., Young Fresh Fellows) and Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate, Gutterball, Danny & Dusty, Miracle 3) have an unhealthy love for music undermined only by an even more unhealthy love of baseball. The compatriots blend their two passions with The Baseball Project -- Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails, an album of buzzing guitars and baseball back stories. The heroes and villains of America's (in)famous pastime are explored with cutting wit and fanboy detail in songs that satisfy both the summer's need for rock anthems and sweltering afternoon double-headers. Drummer Linda Pitmon (Miracle 3, Golden Smog) and R.E.M.'s Peter Buck round out the squad, as they spin tales of ill-fated drinking binges ('The Yankee Flipper', 'The Death of Big Ed Delahanty'), near mythical icons ('Ted Fucking Williams'), folk heroes ('Fernando', 'Satchel Paige Said') and, on 'Gratitude (For Curt Flood)', the overlooked man who changed the game. A passionately funny and sarcastically reverent commentary on the state of the sport, The Baseball Project provides a hip soundtrack to the backstage party at America's game.

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Track Listing

1. Past Time
2. Ted F***** Williams
3. Gratitude (For Curt Flood)
4. Broken Man
5. Satchel Paige
6. Fernando
7. Long Before My Time
8. Jackie's Lament
9. Sometimes I Dream of Willie Mays
10. The Death of Big Ed Delahanty
11. Harvey Haddix
12. The Yankee Flipper
13. The Closer

The Baseball Project | "Past Time" | Letterman

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Don't Call Them Twinkies The Baseball Project Vol. 2 - High and Inside (Bonus Version)
Buckner's Bolero The Baseball Project Vol. 2 - High and Inside (Bonus Version)
Fair Weather Fans The Baseball Project Vol. 2 - High and Inside (Bonus Version)
1976 The Baseball Project Vol. 2 - High and Inside (Bonus Version)
Pete Rose Way The Baseball Project Vol. 2 - High and Inside (Bonus Version)
Here Lies Carl Mays The Baseball Project Vol. 2 - High and Inside (Bonus Version)
Harvey Haddix The Baseball Project Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Ted F*****g Williams The Baseball Project Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
The Closer The Baseball Project Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
The Death of Big Ed Delahanty The Baseball Project Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Gratitude (For Curt Flood) The Baseball Project Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
The Yankee Flipper The Baseball Project Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Satchel Paige Said The Baseball Project Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Fernando The Baseball Project Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Past Time The Baseball Project Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Long Before My Time The Baseball Project Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Broken Man The Baseball Project Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Sometimes I Dream of Willie Mays The Baseball Project Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Jackie's Lament The Baseball Project Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Panda and the Freak The Baseball Project Vol. 2 - High and Inside (Bonus Version)
Look Out Mom The Baseball Project Vol. 2 - High and Inside (Bonus Version)
Chin Music The Baseball Project Vol. 2 - High and Inside (Bonus Version)
Ichiro Goes to the Moon The Baseball Project Vol. 2 - High and Inside (Bonus Version)
Dizzy Dean (Bonus Track) The Baseball Project Vol. 2 - High and Inside (Bonus Version)
The Straw that Stirs the Drink The Baseball Project Vol. 2 - High and Inside (Bonus Version)

The Baseball Project | Lineup

Steve Wynn - Guitar/Vox (The Dream Syndicate, Gutterball, Danny & Dusty, Miracle 3)
Scott McCaughey - Guitar/Vox (The Minus 5, R.E.M., Young Fresh Fellows)
Peter Buck - Bass (R.E.M., Hindu Love Gods, Tuatara)
Linda Pitmon - Drums (Miracle 3, Golden Smog)

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The Baseball Project | Album Reviews

YepRoc Records
Background article from the production company
Review from Variety
Tenor of the music is playful throughout, which carries over into the lyrics, most of which stick with non-fiction. Names of players who have benefited from free agency ingeniously form a chorus in "Gratitude (For Curt Flood)"; a similar, slightly sharper, rhyme scheme comprising names of pitchers who have thrown perfect games shape "Harvey Haddix."
Review in Boston Glove
They appeal directly to the literary fan, recording mid-tempo rockers about Satchel Paige's folk wisdom, Sandy Koufax's existentialism ("I must go on, I can't go on"), and McCaughey's magical night at Candlestick Park with his pop ("Sometimes I Dream of Willie Mays").

This being baseball, the great equalizer, they focus on hard-luck stories - 19th-century superstar Big Ed Delahanty, who was swept over Niagara Falls, or Pittsburgh Pirate Harvey Haddix, who pitched 12 perfect innings and still lost. "One thing you can say about time is that it always passes," they pontificate, Yogi-like, on "Past Time."
Review on CBSSports.com
On paper, the half-highbrow concept -- songs! about baseball guys! with loud guitars! -- sounds like a dodgy proposition. After all, the history of popular music includes precisely 3.5 passable songs about baseball and/or the people who play it: Steve Goodman's A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request, Warren Zevon's Bill Lee and Bob Dylan's Catfish; give partial credit to Say Hey (the Willie Mays Song) by The Treniers, because Mays himself sings background on it. Who the dickens are Wynn and McCaughey to have the audacity to believe they can triple this figure their first time out of the batter's box?
Leominster council at bat against Doyle Field upgrade bid
Gilbert C. Donatelli, president of the foundation, said $108000 has been spent on the baseball project so far, with local businessman John Morrison, president of Fosta-Tek Corp., contributing $40000. Mr. Morrison, who was at the meeting, ...
City Has Tentative Deal To Bring Double-A Baseball To Ottawa In 2013 (2)
The councillor is very pleased now because he had received much criticism that the baseball project was a myth and a publicity stunt. ?It turned out to be more complicated than I thought at first,? the councillor said.
Port City steps up to the plate
Saffo said that if the city decides to pursue the baseball project, it would seek other partnerships with public and private entities. Asked if one of those potential partners could be New Hanover County, since the county has said it was not interested ...
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