{"id":1206,"date":"2010-06-07T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2010\/06\/baseball-music-for-mondays\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T19:02:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T00:02:12","slug":"baseball-music-for-mondays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2010\/06\/baseball-music-for-mondays.html","title":{"rendered":"Baseball (Music for Mondays)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_-GKMR8mFGBs\/TA0A8KtQ3EI\/AAAAAAAAAt8\/0WRs5NxIS6g\/s1600\/16553-redford-l.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_-GKMR8mFGBs\/TA0A8KtQ3EI\/AAAAAAAAAt8\/0WRs5NxIS6g\/s200\/16553-redford-l.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A few days ago, Webster posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/yimcatholic.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/because-nobodys-perfect.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the imperfect call<\/a> heard \u2019round the world. Baseball has been a big part of my life, especially after I became a dad, with two boys who play the game. Softball is pretty big too, as my daughter plays that game (and my alma mater,\u00a0UCLA, \u00a0is in the College Softball World Series championship game, Go Bruins!). <\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of baseball on my, and my oldest son\u2019s plate this week as he has a camp, hitting lessons, games, and finally try-outs for the high school team.\u00a0 All of that on the weekdays, and of course, more baseball this weekend too.\u00a0 So when thinking of music for this Monday, I have baseball on the brain.<br><a name=\"more\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><br>Baseball gives me chills sometimes.\u00a0 This scene from <em>The Natural<\/em>\u00a0always does.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robert Redford in the Natural - Batting Practice\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vZR_FYKPAAQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Brought to you by the guy who wrote and sang such hits as <em>Short People<\/em>\u00a0 and <em>I Love L.A., <\/em>Randy Newman did the score for <em>The Natural.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cWehwH2hdYo\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cWehwH2hdYo<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\">Anyone not remember this speech from <em>Field of Dreams?<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hU3a1PDtTYk\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hU3a1PDtTYk<\/a>\n<p>And the theme? Composed, co-orchestrated, conducted, and produced by James Horner.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jJLwThJBi8g\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jJLwThJBi8g<\/a>\n<p>A\u00a0baseball music post would not be complete without John Fogerty\u2019s <em>Centerfield.<\/em> Check out that baseball bat shaped guitar. Nice!<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WaHOahO8qnE\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WaHOahO8qnE<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>Nor would it be complete without <i>Wild Thing<\/i>\u00a0covered by the band X. Made famous from the comedy movies <i>Major League<\/i> and <i>Major League 2<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wPe2GoG2QB8\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wPe2GoG2QB8<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Take me out to the ball game!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6738513599344023043-2317820329640338917?l=yimcatholic.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, Webster posted on the imperfect call heard \u2019round the world. Baseball has been a big part of my life, especially after I became a dad, with two boys who play the game. 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