Great American Baseball Box [Box set]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 18, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Shout Factory
• ASIN: B000B5XZK6
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #110,227 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. It's A Beautiful Day For A Ball Game - The Harry Simeone Songsters

2. Centerfield - John Fogerty

3. I Love Mickey - Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer

4. D-O-D-G-E-R-S Song (Oh, Really? No, O'Malley) - Danny Kaye

5. Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? - Count Basie & His Orchestra feat. Taps Miller

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. New York Yankees score seven runs in one inning during the final game of the 1936 World Series.

2. New York Yankees sweep Chicago Cubs to win the 1938 World Series, their third consecutive series win.

3. New York Yankees become the first team to win four consecutive World Series titles.

4. “The Shot Heard Round The World” – New York Giants’ Bobby Thomson homers against Brooklyn Dodgers to win National League pennant.

5. “The Catch” – New York Giants’ Willie Mays robs the Cleveland Indians’ Vic Wertz with an over-the-shoulder catch in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series.

See all 30 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Philadelphia Athletics’ manager Connie Mack, Red Smith and Andy Coakley reminisce about the early days of baseball. (1898-1906)

2. Cy Young remembers his perfect game. (1904)

3. Ty Cobb talks about his career. (1906-1918)

4. St. Louis Cardinals’ player-manager Frankie Frisch remembers his 1934 World Championship team, fondly known as “The Gashouse Gang.” (1934)

5. Babe Ruth talks about his goals in baseball. (1934)

See all 42 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. Casey At The Bat – DeWolf Hopper (1909)

2. The Man Who Fanned Casey – DeWolf Hopper (1909)

3. Babe & Lou, The Home Run Twins – Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig (1928)

4. Colgate Sports Newsreel With Bill Stern and the “Strange But True” beginning of the National League. (1941)

5. Babe Ruth answers questions from his young fans. (1941)

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

These are etched into the memories of so many, from the '30s (Yankees win fourth straight World Series) to 2004 ("The Curse" is over!). This 4-CD set-whose box looks like a slightly scuffed base-covers all the bases with original broadcasts (the above plus the "Shot Heard 'Round the World"; Willie Mays' "The Catch"; the homers of Mazeroski, Gibson and Bucky Dent); player remembrances (Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, Pete Rose); a CD of comedy, commercials and controversy, and one with baseball songs by Dylan, Fogerty, Nat King Cole, Count Basie a home run!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Gift for the Baseball Fan, November 1, 2005

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Greg Bass "Greg" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Great American Baseball Box (Audio CD)

This set is amazing and I recommend it as a gift for anyone who you know has a great love for baseball. And I do mean GREAT - this is an exhaustive set and lots of the radio broadcasts preserved here are going to bring back memories for those have been fans of the game for a long time - altho I must admit I got a kick out of hearing some of the milestones of baseball as people must have heard them for the first time. Some great old and new baseball themed songs here as well - really this is a showcase for the national pastime and illustrates what a huge part of our lives this game was and still is.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply fantastic, September 30, 2008

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Crhistopher Cantor (Irvine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Great American Baseball Box (Audio CD)

Here's what I love about this box set - everything! It has all the tunes you would want that are related to music, but more importantly, it has the sound bites that will always be remembered. I have traveled to 17 MLB baseball stadiums and have used a video editing software to make a personal "documentary" of my trips (I did it for myself and friends I travel with). I used music and sound bites from this set to enhance my movie.

Simply put, this is just a great compilation. I have yet to find something better out there.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, but Really Random..., March 26, 2011

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efkasper "Gene Kasper" (Mountain View CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Great American Baseball Box (Audio CD)

Our son bought this CD set for me a couple of Christmases ago. I really enjoy it, but the material is so scattered especially on the 3rd and 4th disks that it's unclear what the project staff was thinking. The only organization seems to be by date, and that's OK.

The baseball-themed songs on disk 1 are pretty standard but fun to listen to, if you don't mind the overly topical songs like "I Love Mickey," "The D-O-D-G-E-R-S Song," "Joltin' Joe DiMaggio," etc. Taken as a whole, it's amazing that baseball fits into so many musical styles! Disk 2 contains game broadcasts, old-time and more contemporary; again, nothing surprising in the choices the project staff made...we've heard most of them before.

Disk 3 contains 42 comments on various baseball topics by various well-known baseball personalities. Unfortunately, there's no context to these comments...basically, they amount to a bunch of "one-liners." Perhaps the most inexcusable example of this is Lou Gehrig's farewell speech: instead of presenting the entire speech, all we get is the well-known "luckiest man on the face of the earth" part...the whole speech is only about a minute and begs to be more widely known and would have been much better than Sammy's Sosa's comments on his corked bat incident.

Disk 4 is even less comprehensible. Are commercials featuring Walter Alston and Roy Campanella pushing Packard-Bell TV's and Reggie Jackson hawking the VW Rabbit (as if we are to believe Jackson actually ever drove one...) the best selections of recorded baseball societal memorabilia available? On the other hand, the routine with Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, and Ralph Kiner is a real hoot; if one remembers the context of Hope and Crosby owning parts of a couple of major league franchises (which ones are obvious when you listen), the comments make sense and are hilarious.

If one is not a baseball fan, that person would probably not enjoy this set. On the other hand, for the baseball fan (or even an old-time radio fan for the radio recordings) I can recommend it.