If there was anything that would make us take a road trip out to the Clev this summer it very well may be to check out the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame’s latest exhibit that combines two of our favorite passions around these parts called Take Me Out: Baseball Rocks! – here’s some info…
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will feature something entirely new this spring: an exhibition devoted to the many connections between America’s most popular music form and its national pastime. Take Me Out: Baseball Rocks! will premiere in April and remain up through the baseball season. The exhibit will celebrate baseball as a pop-culture phenomenon through displays of sheet music, sports memorabilia and records. It will also include listening stations stocked with early cylinder and disc recordings and will include displays on baseball-associated songs from “Set My Heart Free” (Lee Maye, 1954) to the Seattle Mariners/New York Mets anthem “Who Let the Dogs Out?” (Baha Men, 2000). Indians Film, a final section will feature a collection of filmed interviews with individual Cleveland Indians players who will explain why they chose particular songs to represent them when they are up at bat.
The exhibit runs from April 26th to September 28th of this year. If you haven’t been it’s worth the trip – though the city kind of failed to live up to the hype of theme song for the Drew Carey Show.
Coincidently, this year also happens to mark the 100th anniversary of Take Me Out To The Ballgame – just thought I’d share.
