The Broadside Ballads is an album from The Baseball Project

The Baseball Project

The Baseball Project is a supergroup composed of Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon formed in 2007. The performers came together from discussions between McCaughey and Wynn at R.E.M.'s March 21, 2007 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in...

, bringing together songs that were recorded as ‘real time’ commentary on the 2010 baseball season for ESPN.com

ESPN.com

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 with unreleased extra tracks from Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails

Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails

The Baseball Project's first album, Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails was released on Yep Roc Records on July 8, 2008. The album is available on compact disc and digitally on Yep Roc's site.-Track listing:#"Past Time"  – 2:57...

and Volume 2: High and Inside

Volume 2: High and Inside

Volume 2: High and Inside is the second album from The Baseball Project, released by Yep Roc Records on March 1, 2011.-Track listing:#"1976" – 3:37#"Panda and The Freak" – 2:40#"Fair Weather Fans" – 3:37...

. The nine tracks prepared for ESPN.com are also available online (in a different sequence) for free streaming

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Track listing

1. "All Future and No Past
   Lou Boudreau
   Louis "Lou" Boudreau was an American Major League Baseball player and manager. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1970...
   
   " – 2:33
2. "Cubs
   Chicago Cubs
   The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League. They are one of two Major League clubs based in Chicago . The Cubs are also one of the two remaining charter members of the National...
   
    2010" – 2:59
3. "30 Doc
   Roy Halladay
   Harry Leroy "Roy" Halladay III , nicknamed "Doc", is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies...
   
   " – 3:06
4. "Lima
   José Lima
   José Desiderio Rodriguez Lima was a Dominican right-handed pitcher who spent thirteen seasons in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers , Houston Astros , Kansas City Royals , Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets...
   
    Time!" – 2:13
5. "Phenom
   Stephen Strasburg
   Stephen James Strasburg is a right-handed pitcher for the Washington Nationals, who selected him with the first pick in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft...
   
   " – 3:04
6. "(Do The) Triple Crown
   Triple crown (baseball)
   In Major League Baseball, a player earns the Triple Crown when he leads a league in three specific statistical categories. For batters, a player must lead the league in home runs, run batted in , and batting average; pitchers must lead the league in wins, strikeouts, and earned run average...
   
   " – 3:06
7. "DL
   Disabled list
   In Major League Baseball, the disabled list is a method for teams to remove their injured players from the roster in order to summon healthy players.-General guidelines:...
   
    Blues" – 3:06
8. "The Way It's Gonna Be
   Major League Baseball postseason
   The Major League Baseball postseason is an elimination tournament held after the conclusion of Major League Baseball's regular season. It consists of one best-of-five series and two best-of-seven series...
   
   " – 2:45
9. "The Giants
   San Francisco Giants
   The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....
   
    Win the Pennant" – 3:18
10. "Blood Diamond" – 2:59
11. "Golden Sombrero
    Golden sombrero
    In baseball, golden sombrero is a slang term used to describe a player's inglorious feat of striking out four times in a single game.-Origin:The term derives from hat trick, and since four is bigger than three, the rationale was that a four-strikeout performance should be referred to by a bigger...
    
    " – 2:16
12. "The Ballad of Mike Kekich
    Mike Kekich
    Michael Dennis Kekich was a Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, and Seattle Mariners between 1965 and 1977...
    
     and Fritz Peterson
    Fritz Peterson
    Fritz Fred Peterson is a former Major League Baseball player who played for the New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, and Texas Rangers from 1966 to 1976...
    
    " – 2:33
13. "Dizzy Dean
    Dizzy Dean
    Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He was the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season. Dean was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953....
    
     – 2:57
14. "El Hombre
    Albert Pujols
    José Alberto Pujols Alcántara , better known as Albert Pujols , is a Dominican-American professional baseball player, who is currently a free agent...
    
    " – 4:05
15. "The Magic Mitt of Jason Byles" – 1:51
16. "Show Up to Work Every Day" – 3:58

Personnel

The Baseball Project

• Peter Buck
  Peter Buck
  Peter Lawrence Buck , is an American rock guitarist who is best known for playing in and co-founding alternative rock band R.E.M....
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Scott McCaughey
  Scott McCaughey
  As a singer and songwriter, Scott McCaughey is the leader of the Seattle and Portland-based bands The Young Fresh Fellows and The Minus 5.He is also bassist for Robyn Hitchcock's most recent touring band, The Venus 3, along with Bill Rieflin and Peter Buck....
  
   – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Linda Pitmon – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Steve Wynn
  Steve Wynn (songwriter)
  Steve Wynn is a songwriter based in New York . He led the band the Dream Syndicate from 1981 to 1989 and afterward began a solo career.- Career in bands :...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  

Guests

• Robert Lloyd – accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
  , mandolin
  Mandolin
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
  
  , organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
  
• John "Perhapst" Moen – backing vocals
• John Ramberg – guitar

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External links

• Homepage
• Broadside Ballads by The Baseball Project, bandcamp.com. Streaming versions of the nine tracks prepared for ESPN.com.