Baseball and Organ Music: How’d That Happen?

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When did organ music and baseball become an item? ELT talks to some pro organ players to find out how organs and ballparks got together. Plus, meet Nancy Faust — the legendary organist who brought trolling to modern baseball music. Guests: Steven Ball, organist and Director of Sacred Music at The Oratory of St. Francis de Sales in St. Louis, Missouri; Josh Kantor, organist for the Boston Red Sox; Nancy Faust, retired organist for the Chicago White Sox Thanks to caller Robert. Thanks also to Judy Scott. You can see a photo of Nancy's donkeys on twitter and instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:53.0	Today's show, how baseball and organ music became an item.
0:57.0	After this episode, you'll be able to drop some organ knowledge at your next baseball game
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1:04.0	Hi guys this is Robert Chapman from Clinton Mississippi.
1:11.0	The question is the Oregon. Did somebody just say, hey, let's take an
1:15.8	organ out of church and play it at a baseball game? How did that start? start. Should we can't start with a cheer? We can yeah. I say organ you say
1:39.1	Yay I don't know how does this I don't know organ yeah
1:42.8	organ yeah why did you call about this why do you care about organs well I
1:50.4	it's not necessarily that I care about organs it's just I've spent a lot of time growing up with my father and my mother taking me and my brother to baseball games,
2:00.0	and you always hear, you know, the da da da da da da da da da da da da da da.
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