Oscar Gamble's Afro

You people know I've loved The Baseball Project forever (oh ffs do your own search on ol' Xmastime yourself for once dammit), and here's a new article with bass player Mike Mills:

Mills tells Wisconsin Public Radio's "BETA" that the concept feels like a natural fit for a tribute band.

"Baseball is about storytelling. You know, baseball is about nicknames and managers and weird behaviors and leisurely games and all of that sort of thing," he said. "I think baseball is the perfect milieu for this."
Tracks on the album cover other baseball phenomena like the yips, or the various home run calls announcers create that inspired the title track.

"One of the joys of baseball is the idiosyncrasies of each team's announcers. And announcers have to decide how they're going to call home runs. And each year most announcers have their own particular way of doing it. Some of them are more colorful than others. So, we really enjoyed knowing how the different announcers approach their homerun calls," Mills said.

One said announcer even gets his own track. The song "The Voice of Baseball" is a tribute to the late, great Los Angeles Dodgers radio play-by-play man, Vin Scully.

Roll on, my beloved Baseball Project!! 🤗🎸🕺