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“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”: The Rise and Fall of the Baseball Organist Matthew Mihalka University of Minnesota. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”:The Rise and Fall of the Baseball Organist
Matthew MihalkaUniversity of Minnesota
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“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.
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Hammond B2 Organ
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Wrigley Field – Chicago, Illinois
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Ebbets Field – Brooklyn, New York
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Gladys Goodding
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Dodgers Sym-Phony
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Hilda Chester
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Comiskey Park Exploding Scoreboard
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Houston Astrodome Scoreboard
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Team Mascots
Youppi, Montreal Expos (1979) Phillie Phanatic (1978) Crazy Crab, SF Giants (1984)
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Disco Demolition
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Morganna – “The Kissing Bandit”
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KGB Chicken/San Diego Chicken
Introduced in 1974
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Dodger Stadium Video Board
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Three Rivers Stadium - Pittsburgh
Veterans Stadium - Philadelphia
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium
Riverfront Stadium - Cincinnati
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Oriole Park at Camden Yards – Baltimore
Citizens Bank Park - Philadelphia
AT&T Park – San Francisco
Comerica Park - Detroit
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Kauffman Stadium ScoreboardsOld Scoreboard New HD Scoreboard
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Fenway Park
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Nancy Faust, White Sox Organist1970 - 2010
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Matthew Kaminski, Braves Organist
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Matthew Kaminski, Braves Organist
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Nancy Faust at (Old) Comiskey Park
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Sue Nelson, Minnesota Twins Organist
Metrodome Target Field
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