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A CD To Be Named Later
Original Tour Soundtrack

An Explanation

Many Major League Baseball trades include a "player to be named later." For example, in 2002, the Montreal Expos traded Lee Stevens and Brandon Phillips to the Cleveland Indians for Bartolo Colon and a player to be named later. For a more detailed explanation, visit these two web pages:

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Track Listing

  1. Hot Dogs & Beer Here
     
  2. Acoustix - The Star Spangled Banner (Play Ball!)
     
  3. Alabama - Cheap Seats
     
  4. Tommy Lasorda Talkin' About Dave Kingman (1976)

    After a brief big league career as a left-handed pitcher, Tommy Lasorda became one of the most enthusiastic and successful managers in baseball history. Known for his fondness of pasta and pitching, the jovial Lasorda led the Dodgers to eight division titles and two World Championships in 20 seasons as manager. After his retirement, he became a Dodgers executive, and in 1999 completed his 50th year in the organization. He also managed the United States to its first-ever gold medal in baseball at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
     
  5. Jake Flack - Earl Weaver

    Earl Weaver managed the Orioles with intensity, flair and acerbic wit for 17 seasons. His .583 winning percentage ranks fifth all-time among 20th century managers with 10 or more years of service. His five 100-win seasons rank second only to Joe McCarthy. Known for his innovative managerial style and his colorful confrontations with the men in blue, the "Earl of Baltimore" won 1,480 games, six American League East titles, four pennants and the 1970 World Series.
     
  6. Five Chinese Brothers - Baltimore
     
  7. Bill Cosby - Baseball
     
  8. Humphrey Bogart On Baseball
     
  9. Chuck Brodsky - The Ballad of Eddie Klepp

    "The Ballad of Eddie Klepp" chronicles the brief career of the first white player in the Negro Leagues.
     
  10. Grains Of Time - Take Me Out To The Ball Game
     
  11. Tom Paxton - My Favorite Spring
     
  12. Jack Buck - Ozzie Smith's Game-Winning HR (1985 NLCS)

    Hall-of-Famer and St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster Jack Buck died in June, 2002. He was 77.

    Buck broadcast almost every professional sport at one time or another. But he will be remembered as the Voice of the St. Louis Cardinals, the team for whom he broadcast games from 1954-2001.

    Ozzie Smith hit a gaming-winning HR in game 5 of the 1985 National League Championship Series. Buck's call of "Go crazy! Go crazy!" is one of his most famous.
     
  13. Annie Savoy - The Church of Baseball (Bull Durham) (Edit)
     
  14. All - Vida Blue

    After appearing in just 18 games during brief stints with the Oakland Athletics in 1969 and 1970, Vida Blue suddenly became the ace of the team's pitching staff in 1971, compiling a 24-8 record and leading the AL with 8 shutouts and a 1.82 ERA. He won the Cy Young Award and was named the league's most valuable player for that performance.

    He never duplicated his 1971 numbers, though he was 20-9 in 1973 and 22-11 in 1975 and The Sporting News named him the NL's outstanding pitcher in 1978, when he had an 18-10 record for the San Francisco Giants.

    He had a 209-161 record in 17 seasons, with 37 shutouts and a 3.28 ERA. Blue struck out 2,175 hitters and walked 1,185 in 3,343 innings.
     

  15. Jimmy Dugan - No Crying In Baseball (A League Of Their Own)
     
  16. Smashmouth - All Star
     
  17. Joe Buck - Mark McGwire's 62nd Home Run (1998)
     
  18. Semisonic - For The Love Of The Game
     
  19. Seinfeld - Baseball Spit Story
     
  20. Terry Cashman - Talkin' Softball (The Simpsons)
     
  21. The Crowd Turns Ugly
     
  22. Sandpiper Orchestra - The Umpire

    Mitch Miller's "The Umpire" was featured on the flip-side of 45 rpm that had "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" on it. The players on the record are Phil Rizzuto, Tommy Henrich, Ralph Branca, and Roy Campanella.
     
  23. Bob Rivers - Take Baseball And Shove It

    August 11, 1994 -- Major league baseball players, opposing a proposed salary cap by team owners, go on strike with seven weeks left in the season. It's the eighth baseball work stoppage in 22 years and when no progress is made in negotiations, Acting Commissioner Bud Selig cancels the rest of the season. For the first time since 1904, there is no World Series. The strike finally ends in April 1995, but it's nearly two more years before players and owners reach a new collective bargaining agreement.
     
  24. Vin Scully - Bill Buckner's Error Ends Game 6 (1986 World Series)

    In Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, a routine ground ball rolled between the legs of Boston Red Sox first baseman, Bill Buckner, and Boston, leading the Series three games to two, lost the game. The next day, they lost the World Series, and Buckner was the instant goat.

    For one miscue in a career that spanned 22 seasons, Buckner's name has become a synonym for choking. Sixteen years after the fact, that play remains one of the most famous miscues in professional sports.

    After the game, Buckner said the first thing that went through his mind was, "I should've caught the ball, but I get to play in the seventh game of the World Series."

    The Red Sox got out to a three run lead in that final game, but then, without Bill Buckner's help, lost the World Series. They led 3-0 in the bottom of the sixth inning, when starter Bruce Hurst, pitching on three day's rest, gave up the tying run. Red Sox manager John McNamara brought in Calvin Schiraldi who watched the Mets' Ray Knight drive the winning run over the left field wall, and Boston's 68-year championship dearth continued.

    No one remembers that back in Game Six, Boston pitcher Bob Stanley, just before the Buckner error, threw a wild pitch that allowed the Mets to tie the game.

    No one remembers that back in Game Six, John McNamara kept Buckner, playing on two injured ankles, in the game on defense with a world championship on the line. McNamara kept defensive specialist Dave Stapleton — who was called on in similar situations — on the bench.

    But Bill Buckner's error in the next-to-the-last game is remembered.
     
  25. Moxy Fruvous - Baseball
     
  26. Not Available - Baseball Cap
     
  27. Vin Scully - Kirk Gibson's Pinch-Hit HR (1988 World Series)

    Scully's remarkable tenure as the "Voice of the Dodgers" began in 1950 when he joined Red Barber as a member of the Brooklyn club's radio team. Scully followed the Dodgers' move west in 1958 and is still the "Voice of the Dodgers."

    Scully has covered many of baseball's most thrilling moments, including Sandy Koufax's four no-hitters, Hank Aaron's 715th home run, Maury Wills's 104 stolen bases, Don Drysdale's and Orel Hershiser's scoreless inning streaks, and Kirk Gibson's dramatic home run in Game One of the 1988 World Series.
     
  28. U2 - Beautiful Day
     
  29. Harry Caray - Take Me Out To The Ballgame

    Harry Caray's career began in 1945 with the St-Louis Cardinals. He stayed with them until 1969. He spent the 1970 season doing games in Oakland and then became the voice of the Chicago White Sox in 1971. He remained with the White Sox for 11 years. In 1982, he went to the Chicago Cubs. On the year of his death, he would have been with them for 16 years. It would have also been his 54th year in broadcasting.

    Caray had a distinctive voice, yelling "Holy Cow!" and "Cubs Win! Cubs Win!". In later years, he became best known for his off-key warbling of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch of White Sox, then Cubs games.
     
  30. Bud Light Presents - Mr. Parking Attendant Flashlight Waver
     
  31. Fox Baseball Theme
     
  32. Jack Buck - Twins Win The World Series (1991)

    It was the most unlikely World Series matchup ever, as the Twins and Braves became the first two teams in Major League Baseball history to go from last to first in the space of one season.

    But the 1991 World Series will be best remembered for its memorable seventh game. The Atlanta Braves' ace John Smoltz versus the Minnesota Twins' ace Jack Morris, dueling it out during a ten inning shutout. The Braves removed their ace in the eighth, but Morris stayed in for all ten innings getting a Series winning complete game shutout!

    The Twins became just the second team to win the World Series by winning four games at home. The first team to do it? These same Twins, just four years earlier.
     
  33. Geoff Moore and the Distance - Home Run
     
  34. Al Capone - Enthusiasms (The Untouchables)
     
  35. Cleaning Ladies - When The Cubs Win the World Series
     
  36. ESPN Baseball Tonight Theme
     
  37. Springtime (1998 ESPN commercial)
     
  38. Goo Goo Dolls - Take Me Out To The Ball Game
     
  39. Tom Petty - Runnin' Down A Dream
     
  40. Ernie Harwell - A Game For All America (Excerpt)

    After 55 years of broadcasting Major League games, including 42 years with the Tigers, Hall of Fame broadcaster Ernie Harwell is retiring after the 2002 season.

    His 1955 baseball essay, "A Game for All America," is displayed in baseball's Hall of Fame.
     
  41. Kenny Rogers - The Greatest
     
  42. Terence Mann - People Will Come (Field Of Dreams)
     
  43. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Joe Dimaggio Done It Again
     
  44. Double Play

Thanks to Dave Golden, Randy & Connie Crill, Jim & Emily Buege, Chris Weber, Matt McClellan, and Jack George for their contributions and suggestions.

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