Players Choice Jam: Big League Rocks

Artist: Various Artists
Label: Capitol
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724352285822
EAN: 0724352285822
ASIN: B00004R968

Release Date: 2000-03-14

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Tracks:

Introduction - Bob Costas
Welcome To The Show - Mark Langston
Just Like Baseball - Paul O'Neill
Silence - Jack McDowell
Past Due - Scott Spiezio
Eye Of The Storm - Bernie Williams
Take Me Out To The Ballgame - Ernie Banks
La Gozadera - Jose Lima
OB Trolls - David Wells
Home - Sandy Alomar Jr.
As Time Goes By - Tyler Green
Take A Swing - Luis Gonzalez
We Are The Future - Ozzie Smith
Take Me Out To The Ballgame (Live At Wrigley Field) - Harry Caray

Customer Reviews:

Sweet Swings--But No Homers.......2000-11-08

What this album of pop songs performed by current and former ballplayers lacks in musicality it more than makes up for in curiosity value. And besides raising money for a good cause -- the Major League Baseball Players Trust for Children -- it proves that these jocks can play music better than Mets [hopeful] Garth Brooks can play ball.

Among the most musical of the 12 athletes are Astros pitcher Jose Lima, who wrote, produced and sang "La Gozadera," and Yankee Bernie Williams, who plays a subtly jazzy guitar on the instrumental "Eye of the Storm." Arizona outfielder Luis Gonzalez plays congas on the R&B-flavored "Take a Swing," and Yankee Paul O'Neill bangs the fences with his drumming on the Springsteen-esque "Just Like Baseball." There are whiffs: Pitcher Jack McDowell sounds wan on "Silence," and Hall of Famer Ernie Banks can hardly be heard on "Take Me Out to the Ball Game."

A fun, unique CD to have and share.

Weird.......2000-04-30

I'll resist the temptation to choose the introductory voiceover from sports announcer Bob Costas, "Music and baseball: A perfect combination." Major league baseball players did this to benefit MLB's Trust Fund for Children, so I'll try not to sound snide or heartless. But rock songs about baseball make me wince faster than a Randy Johnson brushback. Yankee leftfielder Paul O'Neil drumming on a Kenny Rogers-style romp is something worth smashing a water cooler over. To their credit, most of the ballplayers who dare sing do it about as well as the scores of other singers in this world who try, unsuccessfully. But where's the John Rocker version of "New York, New York" I'd like to know?

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