New Grammy Museum Exhibit Celebrates Baseball
Whether it’s the national anthem played before every game, the music ballplayers select to accent their walk-on to home plate, or the seventh-inning stretch when fans sing “Take Me Out […] More
Recent Posts tagged with baseball
Let's Go Mets!
As this is being written, the New York Mets are still contenders for the 2015 baseball championship. They won in 1969 and 1986 after having the worst record in […] More
Baseball & Opera? Opera & Baseball?
Recorded Wednesday, October 29, 2014. A free event for National Opera Week 2014 at GoingGoingGoneSports Gallery at the Atrium at Citigroup Center in New York City (with special thanks to […] More
Watching Remote Baseball Games Before TV
Today, Joyce Kilmer is best known either for his poem “Trees” or for an eponymous service area on the New Jersey Turnpike. But he was also a journalist. In a […] More
A Baseball-Opera Chronology
“Who Would Doubt That I’m A Man,” sheet music for a baseball song from an 1895 opera I often write about the history of media technology. So why is […] More
The Alternatives
At next month’s SMPTE/NAB Technology Summit on Cinema in Las Vegas, one session will be devoted to “Alternative Content.” What’s that? It’s complicated. One hundred years ago, the 1912 […] More
Campus Clips: Louisville’s CardsTV, LSU’s Geaux Zone Blanket Baseball
The University of Louisville athletics department has announced web streaming and television details for the Cardinals’ baseball season and CardsTV is, again, a major piece of the puzzle. Subscribers can […] More
LSU Baseball Gets Highlights on the Fly
With 56 games on the regular-season schedule during the 2011 season, fans of LSU’s baseball team do not have time to fall behind. To help its fans stay on top […] More
Baseball’s “Crack” Is More Than Just Bat Hitting Ball
Opening Day is nearly upon us and will be heralded, after the National Anthem and the refrain “Play ball!,” by baseball’s singular sonic signature: the crack of the bat on […] More
Venue News & Notes: Giants and Jets Both Get Home Openers
The New York Giants and New York Jets will both host games at their new home, Meadowlands Stadium, on the opening weekend of the 2010 regular season. The Giants will […] More