Vintage Baseball Music site

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Posted By: Max

For those of you looking to listen to some vintage baseball music, I ran across this site where you can play MIDI files of such songs as Lardner's "Gee It's a Wonderful Game" and a number of others.

http://www.nationwide.net/~amaranth/ballgame.htm


Ring Lardner wrote his song in collaboration with Doc White:



In one of my favorites I've bookmarked, I believe someone has catalogued a massive collection of baseball sheet music with images. Unfortunately, I can't find my bookmark. If anyone has that link, please let me know.

Thnaks, Max

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Posted By: Max

I found the bookmark:

http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/

Here's one from the collection that doesn't show up on ebay everyday:

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Posted By: John Effenheim

of some relatively easy to use software that you can transcribe sheet music into midi files? I have sheet music composed for the 1936 Milwaukee Brewers titled "Our Team's Leading the Hit Parade" that I'd like to hear. My piano playing skills would probably render it indistiguishable from "Mary Had a Little Lamb".

Or will these guys take "requests"?

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Posted By: Max Weder

John

My musical talents end at playing 'Smoke on the Water' on the guitar (and playing it badly).

I suggest you contact Jeff Campbell who is the chair of the SABR Music and Poetry committe http://www.sabr.org/sabr.cfm?a=cms,c,262,5,0

Jeff can be reached at hungryformusic@worldnet.att.net

Hope this helps.

Max

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Posted By: Bruce Babcock

If anyone is planning a visit to the Hall of Fame, you will hear a recording I produced of a brass band playing "The Red Stockings March." It will be playing in the new-ish 19th century room.

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/whats_new/press_releases/2004/pr2004_06_10.htm>


I originally made the recording for my friend Darryl Brock, author of "If I Never Get Back," a novel containing a unique fictionalized account of the 1869 Red Stockings. Darryl's other baseball novels include "Two in the Field" and "Havana Heat." (All three are available thru Amazon.) Darryl, a SABR member, uses the recording when lecturing about the research that went into his novel. He gave the recording to his friend Tom Schieber, a curator at the HOF, and Tom liked it well enough to incorporate it into the exhibit. There comes a day in every man's life when he realizes that he will never play major league baseball. For me, that day came in 1963. However, I am (sort of) in the Hall of Fame.