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Thread #136688   Message #3953049
Posted By: GUEST,keberoxu
26-Sep-18 - 06:56 PM
Thread Name: Baseball Season!
Subject: RE: Baseball Season!
Baseball's Sad Lexicon
was authored by Franklin Pierce Adams in 1910
original title: "That Double Play Again," appeared in the New York Evening Mail.

AND:
one Chris McCaughan has SET IT TO MUSIC according to Wikipedia.
Chris McCaughan provided vocals and guitar for a musical group called
"The Lawrence Arms" in Chicago.
McCaughan's musical setting is not on a "Lawrence Arms" publication,
but from his album "We Chase the Waves" as part of Sundowner,
a group which includes a pedal steel guitar.

Here's a link to the song/recording.

Baseball's Sad Lexicon, performed by Sundowner