The Reds and Pirates did something cool last night: in honor of the 75th anniversary of the first ever night game -- which also took place in Cincinnati -- the teams, according to the MLB.com story, played in “a retro atmosphere with no modern graphics on the scoreboard in the first seven innings and organ music filling the stadium air.”
Only problem: there was no organ music at ballparks in 1935. I only know this because of that story from yesterday about the Astros bringing back the organs, but the fact is that organs weren’t played at baseball games until the early 1940’s. If the Reds really wanted to make like it was 75 years ago they should have pumped in “The Good Ship Lollipop” or “Red Sails in the Sunset” by Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians.
Heck, maybe they should do that anyway. Beats that awful John Fogerty song and whatever pathetic rap-metal obnoxiousness all the kids are listening to these days.
