Deadspin is on fire today. First they compile a list of the worst Twitter accounts in sports -- I’m at 54, by the way -- and then they have a fun post up about the dawn of entrance music in baseball. I never woulda guessed in a thousand years who started all of that. Turned out it was Sparky Lyle:
“The organization probably wasn’t ready for a rock song,” [Marty] Appel said. One of his friends was the son of David Carey, a studio musician who’d toured with Frank Sinatra. Appel described a typical Lyle entrance to the elder Carey and asked for advice. Carey recommended Sir Edgar Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance.”
And you thought Randy Savage started all of that.
For the comments: if you’re a big leaguer, what’s your walkup music?
