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“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”: The Rise and Fall of the Baseball Organist Matthew Mihalka University of Minnesota.

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1 “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”: The Rise and Fall of the Baseball Organist Matthew Mihalka University of Minnesota

2 “It is nonsensical so-called music consisting of dah-dah-dah—dah-dah-dah, and increasing in volume as the game progresses. . . If someone would ask me what could be done to improve big league baseball I would say “Take the blankety-blank organs out of all ballparks.” Don Marsh, Los Angeles Times, 1987. “[Ballpark organists] are a dying breed, replaced each year by another DJ blasting canned rock; squeezed out by M&M races, text message quizzes and all other forms of Jumbotron techno-blather designed, it seems, to entertain bored teenagers and make fans forget where they are.” Melissa Isaacson, Chicago Tribune, 2004.

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6 Hammond B2 Organ

7 Wrigley Field – Chicago, Illinois

8 Ebbets Field – Brooklyn, New York

9 Gladys Goodding

10 Dodgers Sym-Phony

11 Hilda Chester

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13 Comiskey Park Exploding Scoreboard

14 Houston Astrodome Scoreboard

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16 Team Mascots Phillie Phanatic (1978) Youppi, Montreal Expos (1979)
Crazy Crab, SF Giants (1984)

17 Disco Demolition

18 Morganna – “The Kissing Bandit”

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20 KGB Chicken/San Diego Chicken
Introduced in 1974

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22 Dodger Stadium Video Board

23 Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium Three Rivers Stadium - Pittsburgh
Veterans Stadium - Philadelphia Riverfront Stadium - Cincinnati

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25 Oriole Park at Camden Yards – Baltimore AT&T Park – San Francisco
Comerica Park - Detroit Citizens Bank Park - Philadelphia

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27 Kauffman Stadium Scoreboards
Old Scoreboard New HD Scoreboard

28 Fenway Park

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30 Nancy Faust, White Sox Organist 1970 - 2010

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32 Matthew Kaminski, Braves Organist

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34 Matthew Kaminski, Braves Organist

35 Nancy Faust at (Old) Comiskey Park

36 Sue Nelson, Minnesota Twins Organist
Metrodome Target Field

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