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Disc 1:

  1. It's A Beautiful Day For A Ballgame - The Harry Simeone Songsters
  2. Centerfield - John Fogerty
  3. I Love Mickey - Teresa Brewer
  4. D-O-D-G-E-R-S Song (Oh, Really? No, O'Malley) - Danny Kaye
  5. Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? - Count Basie & His Orchestra
  6. Talkin' Baseball (Willie, Mickey & 'The Duke') - Terry Cashman
  7. Catfish - Bob Dylan
  8. Take Me Out The Ballgame - The Andrews Sisters
  9. Joltin' Joe DiMaggio - Les Brown & His Orchestra
  10. Baseball Boogie - Mabel Scott
  11. The First Baseball Game - Nat King Cole Orchestra
  12. Right Field - Peter, Paul & Mary
  13. Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song) - The Treniers
  14. Van Lingle Mungo - Dave Frishberg
  15. A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request - Steve Goodman
  16. The Ball Game - Sister Wynona Carr

Disc 2:

  1. New York Yankees Score Seven Runs In One Inning During The Final Game Of The 1936 World Series - New York Yankees Score Seven Runs In One Inning During The Final Game Of The 1936 World Series
  2. New York Yankees Sweep Chicago Cubs To Win The 1938 World Series, Their Third Consecutive Series Win - New York Yankees Sweep Chicago Cubs To Win The 1938 World Series, Their Third Consecutive Series Win
  3. New York Yankees Become The First Team To Win Four Consecutive World Series Titles - New York Yankees Become The First Team To Win Four Consecutive World Series Titles
  4. 'The Shot Heard Round The World' - New York Giants' Bobby Thomson Homers Against Brooklyn Dodgers To Win National League Pennant - 'The Shot Heard Round The World' - New York Giants' Bobby Thomson Homers Against Brooklyn Dodgers To Win National League Pennant
  5. 'The Catch' - New York Giants' Willie Mays Robs The Cleveland Indians' Vic Wertz With An Over-The-Shoulder Catch In Game 1 Of The 1954 World Series - 'The Catch' - New York Giants' Willie Mays Robs The Cleveland Indians' Vic Wertz With An Over-The-Shoulder Catch In Game 1 Of The 1954 World Series
  6. New York Yankees' Don Larsen Pitches Only Perfect Game In World Series History - New York Yankees' Don Larsen Pitches Only Perfect Game In World Series History
  7. Ted Williams Homers In His Final At Bat In The Major Leagues - Ted Williams Homers In His Final At Bat In The Major Leagues
  8. Pittsburgh Pirates' Bill Mazeroski's Game 7 Home Run Wins 1960 World Series - Pittsburgh Pirates' Bill Mazeroski's Game 7 Home Run Wins 1960 World Series
  9. New York Yankees' Roger Maris Breaks Babe Ruth's Single Season Home Run Record - New York Yankees' Roger Maris Breaks Babe Ruth's Single Season Home Run Record
  10. New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle Sets World Series Home Run Record With 16th Round Tripper - New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle Sets World Series Home Run Record With 16th Round Tripper
  11. New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle Hits His 500th Career Home Run - New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle Hits His 500th Career Home Run
  12. The Amazin' New York Mets Win The 1969 World Series - The Amazin' New York Mets Win The 1969 World Series
  13. Atlanta Braves 'Hammerin' Hank' Aaron Breaks Babe Ruth's Career Home Run Record - Atlanta Braves 'Hammerin' Hank' Aaron Breaks Babe Ruth's Career Home Run Record
  14. Boston Red Sox's Carlton Fisk Homers To Win Game Six Of The 1975 World Series - Boston Red Sox's Carlton Fisk Homers To Win Game Six Of The 1975 World Series
  15. New York Yankees' Reggie Jackson Homers Three Times In Final Game Of 1977 World Series - New York Yankees' Reggie Jackson Homers Three Times In Final Game Of 1977 World Series
  16. New York Yankees' Bucky Dent Homers To Beat Red Sox And Win The 1978 American League Eastern Division Title - New York Yankees' Bucky Dent Homers To Beat Red Sox And Win The 1978 American League Eastern Division Title
  17. Cincinnati Reds' Tom Seaver Becomes Fifth Pitcher To Amass 3,000 Strikeouts - Cincinnati Reds' Tom Seaver Becomes Fifth Pitcher To Amass 3,000 Strikeouts
  18. Kansas City Royals' George Brett Has Home Run Disqualified For Pine Tar Too Far Up The Bat Handle - Kansas City Royals' George Brett Has Home Run Disqualified For Pine Tar Too Far Up The Bat Handle
  19. Cincinnati Reds' Pete Rose Breaks Ty Cobb's All-Time Hits Record - Cincinnati Reds' Pete Rose Breaks Ty Cobb's All-Time Hits Record
  20. Bill Buckner's Legendary Error Continues The Boston Red Sox Curse - Bill Buckner's Legendary Error Continues The Boston Red Sox Curse
  21. Los Angeles Dodgers' Kirk Gibson Homers To Win Game 1 Of The 1988 World Series - Los Angeles Dodgers' Kirk Gibson Homers To Win Game 1 Of The 1988 World Series
  22. Texas Rangers' Nolan Ryan Hurls His Seventh No-Hitter - Texas Rangers' Nolan Ryan Hurls His Seventh No-Hitter
  23. Toronto Blue Jays' Joe Carter Wins Game 6 Of The 1993 World Series With A Home Run - Toronto Blue Jays' Joe Carter Wins Game 6 Of The 1993 World Series With A Home Run
  24. Baltimore Orioles' Cal Ripken, Jr., Breaks Lou Gehrig's Consecutive Games Played Record - Baltimore Orioles' Cal Ripken, Jr., Breaks Lou Gehrig's Consecutive Games Played Record
  25. St. Louis Cardinals' Mark McGwire Breaks Roger Maris' Single Season Home Run Record With 62 - St. Louis Cardinals' Mark McGwire Breaks Roger Maris' Single Season Home Run Record With 62
  26. Chicago Cubs' Sammy Sosa Ties Mark McGwire's Single Season Home Run Record With 62 - Chicago Cubs' Sammy Sosa Ties Mark McGwire's Single Season Home Run Record With 62
  27. San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds Breaks Mark McGwire's Single Season Home Run Record With 71 - San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds Breaks Mark McGwire's Single Season Home Run Record With 71
  28. Arizona Diamondbacks' Luis Gonzalez's Game 7 hit Beats The New York Yankees To Win The 2001 World Series - Arizona Diamondbacks' Luis Gonzalez's Game 7 hit Beats The New York Yankees To Win The 2001 World Series
  29. Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki Breaks George Sisler's Single Season Hits Reocrd - Seattle Mariners' Iciro Suzuki Breaks George Sisler's Single Season Hits Reocrd
  30. Boston Red Sox Beat The St. Louis Cardinals To Win The 2004 World Series And Break 86-Year-Old Curse - Boston Red Sox Beat The St. Louis Cardinals To Win The 2004 World Series And Break 86-Year-Old Curse

Disc 3:

  1. Philadelphia Athletics' Manager Connie Mack, Red Smith And Andy Coakley Reminisce About The Early Days Of Baseball - Connie Mack
  2. Cy Young Remembers His Perfect Game - Cy Young
  3. Ty Cobb Talks About His Career - Ty Cobb
  4. St. Louis Cardinals' Player-Manager Frankie Frisch Remembers His 1934 World Championship Team, Fondly Known As 'The Gashouse Gang' - Frankie Frisch
  5. Babe Ruth Talks About His Goals In Baseball - Babe Ruth
  6. Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis Declares Baseball Hall Of Fame Open - Kenesaw Mountain Landis
  7. An Ailing Lou Gehrig Announces His Retirement And Bids Farewell At Yankee Stadium - Lou Gehrig
  8. New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia On The War And Baseball - Fiorello LaGuardia
  9. Boston Red Sox's Ted Williams Talks About His Love Of Baseball - Ted Williams
  10. Babe Ruth Gives Farewell Address At Yankee Stadium - Babe Ruth
  11. Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson Reflects On Being Baseball's First African-American Player - Jackie Robinson
  12. New York Yankees' 'Joltin'' Joe DiMaggio Announces His Retirement From Baseball - Joe DiMaggio
  13. Leo Durocher Reminisces About Managing The 1954 World Champion New York Giants - Leo Durocher
  14. Detroit Tigers' Hank Greenberg Reminisces About His Greatest Thrill In Baseball - Hank Greenberg
  15. New York Giants And Brooklyn Dodgers Announce Their Move To The West Coast - New York Giants And Brooklyn Dodgers Announce Their Move To The West Coast
  16. New York Yankees' Manager Casey Stengel Testifies Before The Senate Subcommittee On Monopoly And Anti-Trust Hearings - Casey Stengel
  17. New York Yankees' Whitey Ford Discusses Pitching Fundamentals - Whitey Ford
  18. Los Angeles Dodgers' Don Drysdale And Sandy Koufax Hold Out For New Contracts - Don Drysdale
  19. St. Louis Cardinals Great Stan Musial On Unionizing Players And The Expansion Of The League - Stan Musial
  20. San Francisco Giants' Gaylord Perry Talks About Pitching - Gaylord Perry
  21. Baltimore Orioles' Brooks Robinson Discusses The 1966 World Series Against The Los Angeles Dodgers And The Off-Season - Brooks Robinson
  22. Chicago White Sox Owner Bill Veeck On The 1966 World Series - Bill Veeck
  23. New York Yankees' Yogi Berra Is Inducted Into The Baseball Hall Of Fame - New York Yankees' Yogi Berra Is Inducted Into The Baseball Hall Of Fame
  24. Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain Discusses Pitching - Denny Mclain
  25. Future Hall Of Famer Frank Robinson On His Trade From The baltimore Orioles To The Los Angeles Dodgers - Frank Robinson
  26. Cincinnati Reds' Johnny Bench On he 1972 National League West Divisional Race - Johnny Bench
  27. Boston Red Sox's Carl Yastrzemski Talks About The Upcoming Season - Carl Yastrzemski
  28. Cincinnati Reds' Pete Rose On The Upcoming National League Playoffs - Pete Rose
  29. oakland Athletics' Reggie Jackson Reveals He Received Death Threats Prior To The 1973 World Series - Reggie Jackson
  30. New York Yankees' Reggie Jackson Answers His Critics - Reggie Jackson
  31. NBC Announcer Tony Kubek Interviews Atlanta Braves' 'Hammerin' Hank' Aaron About The Pressure Of Trying To Break Babe Ruth's Career Home Run Record - Hank Aaron
  32. New York Yankees' Bucky Dent On His Above-Normal Home Run Production - Bucky Dent
  33. California Angels' Reggie Jackson Returns To An Ovation At Yankee Stadium - California Angels' Reggie Jackson Returns To An Ovation At Yankee Stadium
  34. New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner Speaks To Rumors He Will Sell The Team - George Steinbrenner
  35. Pete Rose Addresses The Dowd Report's Accusations That He Gambled While Manager Of The Cincinnati Reds - Pete Rose
  36. Former Baltimore Orioles' Cal Ripken, Jr., Reflects On His Consecutive Games-Played Streak - Cal Ripken, Jr.
  37. NBC Anchor Brian Williams' Account Of St. Louis Cardinals' Mark McGwire's Single Season Record-Breaking 62nd Home Run - Brian Williams
  38. Mark McGwire On The Groundskeeper Who Caught His 62nd Home Run Ball - Mark McGwire
  39. Chicago Cubs' Sammy Sosa Reflects On His Record-Breaking 66 Home Runs - Sammy Sosa
  40. Sammy Sosa On His Pending Suspension For Using A Corked Bat - Sammy Sosa
  41. San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds Talks About Hitting His 700th Career Home Run - Barry Bonds
  42. Boston Red Sox Manager Terry Francona On The Possibility Of Winning The Final Game Of The World Series - Terry Francona
  43. Philadelphia Athletics' Manager Connie Mack Coins The Hopeful Phrase 'There's Always Next Year!' - Connie Mack

Disc 4:

  1. Casey At The Bat - DeWolf Hopper
  2. The Man Who Fanned Casey - DeWolf Hopper
  3. Babe & Lou, The Home Run Twins - Babe Ruth
  4. Colgate Sports Newsreel With Bill Stern And The 'Strange But True' Beginning Of The National League - Bill Stern
  5. Babe Ruth Answers Questions From His Young Fans - Babe Ruth
  6. 'Two Top Gruskin' - Duffy's Tavern Radio Program - 'Two Top Gruskin' - Duffy's Tavern Radio Program
  7. Joe DiMaggio Answers Mailbag Questions From His Fans - Joe DiMaggio
  8. Ralph Kiner Sponsers Wheaties And Trades Barbs With Bob Hope, Bing Crosby And Dorothy Lamour - Bing Crosby
  9. Richie Ashburn Gets His Energy From Eating Wheaties! - Richie Ashburn
  10. Bob Feller Speaks To Announcer Bill Stern About baseball And Disabled American Veterans - Bill Stern
  11. Who's On First? - Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
  12. The Seventh Inning Stretch Sponsored By Falstaff Beer - The Seventh Inning Stretch Sponsored By Falstaff Beer
  13. Joe DiMaggio Marries Actress Marilyn Monroe - Joe DiMaggio Marries Actress Marilyn Monroe
  14. Mutual And Falstaff Beer Present The 'Game Of The Day' - Mutual And Falstaff Beer Present The 'Game Of The Day'
  15. Dizzy Dean Promises Dinah Shore Some Christmas Snow - Dizzy Dean
  16. Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey Laments The Future Of Baseball And Its Expansion - Branch Rickey
  17. Hit A Home Run With Falstaff Beer! - Hit A Home Run With Falstaff Beer!
  18. Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Walter Alston Sponsors Packard Bell Televisions - Walter Alston
  19. Roy Campanella Promotes Packard Bell Televisions And Hi-Fis - Roy Campanella
  20. Don Drysdale Endorses Proposition 'S' For Better Schools - Don Drysdale
  21. Fond Remembrances Of Ebbets Field And The Brooklyn Dodgers Before The Stadium Is Torn Down - Brooklyn Symphony Band
  22. Reggie Jackson Promotes The Volkswagen Rabbit - Reggie Jackson
  23. Tommy Lasorda Is Bleeping Mad After New York Mets' Dave Kingman Hits Three Home RUns Against The Los Angeles Dodgers - Tommy Lasorda
  24. Announcers Comment On The Start Of The 24-Hour Sports Network ESPN And Its Effect On Baseball Teams' Revenue - Announcers Comment On The Start Of The 24-Hour Sports Network ESPN And Its Effect On Baseball Teams' Revenue
  25. 'Beisbol Been Good To Me' - Comedian Garrett Morris Of Saturday Night Live As Fictitious New York Mets All-Star Chico Escuela - Garrett Morris
  26. Announcer Mel Allen And This Week In Baseball - Mel Allen
  27. Detroit Tigers Promote An Upcoming Series With The Seattle Mariners - Detroit Tigers Promote An Upcoming Series With The Seattle Mariners
  28. Boston Red Sox Fans Speculate That 'The Curse Of The Bambino' May Be Coming To An End - Boston Red Sox Fans Speculate That 'The Curse Of The Bambino' May Be Coming To An End

Album Details: Great American Baseball Box / Various (Box)

Release Date:
10/18/2005
Label:
Shout Factory
UPC:
826663144024

Pro Reviews: Great American Baseball Box / Various (Box)

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From AMG Reviews

Baseball, more so than any of the other major professional sports, is built on the awareness that anything that happens in the current game being played becomes immediately a part of a long, storied and statistically verified past, uniting everything in the single arc of a ball toward the plate, where the swing of a bat can change the moment, but that swing and its resultgood or bad, according to one's allegiance takes its place in a legendary past a second later, a cipher in a game that worships ciphers. Baseball is instant nostalgia, which is why this four disc box set of baseball ephemera is bound to get a good deal of media attention. Consisting of one disc of baseball songs, a disc of play by play broadcasts of historic baseball moments, a disc of interviews with players and managers about those historic moments, and a final disc of baseball poetry, comedy routines and audio of baseball players doing commercials, The Great American Baseball Box (which comes in a box shaped like 2nd base) is packed full of more nostalgia than ten boxes of doo wop hits. Thankfully the booklet that accompanies the set approaches the whole enterprise from a sane and balanced perspective, linking baseball and its history into the larger scheme of American cultural history, so that when you hear Count Basie's "Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?" from 1949, two years after Jackie Robinson first stepped on to Brooklyn's Ebbets Field to break baseball's color barrier, the full implication of the song (the vocal is sung by Tape Miller) is clear. Likewise, when Bob Dylan equates the multimillion dollar free agency of pitcher Catfish Hunter in "Catfish" to not working on Mr. Finley's farm any more, it's clear that baseball, at least as it has been written and sung about, has always functioned as a mirror of the larger culture, where greed all too often has been mistaken for a way of life, and whole franchises tumble because of it. Then there is Dave Frishberg's delightful "Van Lingle Mungo," which fashions a whole song out of the names of obscure baseball players, and you begin to see the scope of baseball's passion for minutiae, which can be as exotic as you want to make it. In the end, The Great American Baseball Box makes a great gift for a baseball fan, but one wonders how much any of these discs would actually get played past once, unless you're an old time Giants fan and feel like hearing radio broadcaster Russ Hodges scream "The Giants win the pennant The Giants win the pennant The Giants win the pennant" (which followed Bobby Thomson's famous shot off of the Dodgers' Ralph Branca in 1951) over and over again. Baseball grounds its present in the past on a daily basis, and this set is a monument to that. But baseball is also a game of contradictions (much like the country that gave birth to it), and everyone knows that the only pitch that matters now is the next one.

- Steve Leggett , All Music Guide


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