"Take Me Out to the Ballgame: A Baseball Anthology"

From: New Letters on the Air
Series: New Letters on the Air
Length: 29:00

No other sport has inspired as much poetry as baseball. Today's anthology features works by former U.S. Poet Laureates and other lovers of the sport. Read the full description.

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Promos

Playing: "Take Me Out to the Ballgame: A Baseball Anthology"
From: New Letters on the Air

Logosquare_small America's Pastime comes to a close for another year in October with the Major League Baseball World Series. Guest host Dennis Conrow pays tribute to the game and those who love it with this anthology show featuring poetry and stories about baseball, including works by Donald Hall, Martin Espada, Jonathan Holden, Maxine Kumin, and Billy Lombardo, along with an interview featuring the late Negro Leagues great, Buck O’Neil after the release of his autobiography, I WAS RIGHT ON TIME.

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Piece Description

America's Pastime comes to a close for another year in October with the Major League Baseball World Series. Guest host Dennis Conrow pays tribute to the game and those who love it with this anthology show featuring poetry and stories about baseball, including works by Donald Hall, Martin Espada, Jonathan Holden, Maxine Kumin, and Billy Lombardo, along with an interview featuring the late Negro Leagues great, Buck O’Neil after the release of his autobiography, I WAS RIGHT ON TIME.

Broadcast History

This program was originally distributed via PRSS' Content Depot on 10/23/2009, and redistributed in a slightly different version on 7/2/2010

Timing and Cues

PROMO: NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR examines the sport that has probably inspired more poetry than any other. TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME features works by former U.S. Poet Laureates Donald Hall and Maxine Kumin, American Book Award-winner Martin (MAR-teen) Espada (EH-spa-da), the first Poet Laureate of Kansas, Jonathan Holden, and Chicago fiction writer, Billy Lombardo. We'll also hear an interview with the late Negro Leagues great, Buck O'Neil, recorded after the release of his autobiography, I WAS RIGHT ON TIME. Listen to TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME on the next NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR.
UPLINK DATE: 7/02/10
INCUE: (music) "The crack of a bat against a fastball..."
OUTCUE: "... I'm Dennis Conrow. Thanks for listening to NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR."

Musical Works

Title	Artist	Album	Label	Length
Spanish Summer	Jason Shaw	www.audionautix.com.	Royalty Free Production Music	00:00
Ophelia's Blues	Jason Shaw	www.audionautix.com.	Royalty Free Production Music	00:00
Words	Jason Shaw	www.audionautix.com.	Royalty Free Production Music	00:00
Minstrel	Jason Shaw	www.audionautix.com.	Royalty Free Production Music	00:00
Serenity	Jason Shaw	www.audionautix.com.	Royalty Free Production Music	00:00
Somewhere Sunny	Kevin Mac Leod	www.incompetech.com.	Royalty Free Production Music	00:00
Take Me Out to the Ballgame	Kevin Mac Leod	www.incompetech.com.	Royalty Free Production Music	00:00