Baseball (1994)

Composer(s):
Jesse Carr (traditional music), Matt Glaser (traditional music)

Released in:
1994

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Great Soundtrack to get in the mood for some baseball
If you saw the Baseball series and liked the music there, you will be pleased and surprised to find out that the music is on this CD. I think all the songs I remembered from the series is on this CD. I cannot be positive whether this soundtrack actually has all the songs, but I do not notice any that are missing.

Even if you did not see the Ken Burns series, you can get this CD and know you will be able to get in a baseball mood when you hear it. The songs all have a distinct flavor about them that just make me think baseball.

Steal Away Home
Ken Burns is smart enough to realize that some of the best music in many films, including BASEBALL, is the incidental music. As he did with THE CIVIL WAR soundtrack, Burns includes plenty of the beautiful piano solos from the PBS special on this CD.

The inclusion of the calls from The Shot Heard 'Round The World and Hank Aaron's 715th HR is a nice touch. Nothing drives people crazier than cranking that up real loud in afternoon traffic.

Unfortunately, what you see in the film and hear on the soundtrack is what baseball was in this country, and what it is now. It's still a popular game, it still makes a lot of money, it still has a lot of fans. But the love for the game, the feeling so many of us had for the players and the teams, isn't there any more. Would a major political figure speak so poetically on behalf of a player now, and would so many people listen and be as touched, as when Jesse Jackson gave his eulogy for Jackie Robinson?

For that matter, will there ever be another sports figure even half as important as Jackie Robinson?

For the Baseball lover's heart and soul
This is a simplistically beautiful CD. The cuts range from the joyous to the deeply moving. From Garison Keillor's opening reading of Walt Whitman's thoughts on baseball to the closing quiet of the Star Spangled Banner, the listener is taken on a musical and aural journey through the history of Our National Pastime. Even though the game of today can be a pale imitation in some ways of what it once was, baseball still has a strong emotional hold on millions of Americans.
While I love listening to the entire CD, my favorite track above all is the moving"Steal Away". I always think of Jackie Robinson when I hear this song. The song has the feel of quiet dignity and a life lived in simple strength.
If you love baseball like I do, buy this CD.....you'll be so glad you did.

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