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Hammond B2 Organ

“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”: The Rise and Fall of the Baseball Organist Matthew Mihalka University of Minnesota.

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Hammond B2 Organ

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  1. “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”:The Rise and Fall of the Baseball OrganistMatthew MihalkaUniversity of Minnesota

  2. “It is nonsensical so-called music consisting of dah-dah-dah—dah-dah-dah, and increasing in volume as the game progresses. . . If someone would ask me what could be done to improve big league baseball I would say “Take the blankety-blank organs out of all ballparks.” • Don Marsh, Los Angeles Times, 1987. “[Ballpark organists] are a dying breed, replaced each year by another DJ blasting canned rock; squeezed out by M&M races, text message quizzes and all other forms of Jumbotron techno-blather designed, it seems, to entertain bored teenagers and make fans forget where they are.” • Melissa Isaacson, Chicago Tribune, 2004.

  3. Hammond B2 Organ

  4. Wrigley Field – Chicago, Illinois

  5. Ebbets Field – Brooklyn, New York

  6. Gladys Goodding

  7. Dodgers Sym-Phony

  8. Hilda Chester

  9. Comiskey Park Exploding Scoreboard

  10. Houston Astrodome Scoreboard

  11. Team Mascots PhilliePhanatic (1978) Youppi, Montreal Expos (1979) Crazy Crab, SF Giants (1984)

  12. Disco Demolition

  13. Morganna – “The Kissing Bandit”

  14. KGB Chicken/San Diego Chicken Introduced in 1974

  15. Dodger Stadium Video Board

  16. Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium Three Rivers Stadium - Pittsburgh Veterans Stadium - Philadelphia Riverfront Stadium - Cincinnati

  17. Oriole Park at Camden Yards – Baltimore AT&T Park – San Francisco Comerica Park - Detroit Citizens Bank Park - Philadelphia

  18. Kauffman Stadium Scoreboards Old Scoreboard New HD Scoreboard

  19. Fenway Park

  20. Nancy Faust, White Sox Organist1970 - 2010

  21. Matthew Kaminski, Braves Organist

  22. Matthew Kaminski, Braves Organist

  23. Nancy Faust at (Old) Comiskey Park

  24. Sue Nelson, Minnesota Twins Organist Metrodome Target Field

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