BY KATHERINE COLE This is a very happy week for baseball fans the world over—the 2013 major league season officially started on Sunday March 31st, when the Houston Astros beat their in-state rival Texas Rangers 8-2. OK, calm down. This isn’t turning into a sports blog. But there’s a longtime love affair between music and […]
Baseball on the brain…and in my headphones
By Katherine Cole Doug Levine’s recent blog on baseball and music got me thinking about the connection our “great American past time” has with music. Baseball has been celebrated in song almost since the first pitch was tossed. The most famous baseball song ever written sprang from a most unlikely source. When Jack Norworth wrote […]
Baseball and The Bee Gees
By Doug Levine It’s World Series time and there’s a lot of excitement for this great event featuring the Detroit Tigers and San Francisco Giants. Like many of my fellow baseball fans here in DC, I too was on the edge of my seat pulling for our Washington Nationals to win their divisional playoff series. […]