Major League alert

I concur.

 

Was Rick Vaughn the first reliever with a specific entrance song?

 

Not even close.

Teams have been playing specific music to introduce players since at least World War II, around the time that the Dodgers and Braves began using organists.

A SABR listserv query I made in 2006 came back with the following results:

Here's a 2006 Slate.com article that came out of that thread (even though the writer failed to credit any of the SABR members who did this research): http://www.slate.com/id/2139937/?nav=ais

 

Thanks Buck. Figured it had to have come from some where.

 

I will say X's version of "Wild Thing" may be the best cover song ever. Just takes that tune to a whole new level.

 

Paging Hejira Henry.....

 

Better ones (or ones just as good) to break out at the ballpark:
"Too high, too high"

"Who gives a **** it's gone"

 

I say that at least two or three times every time I go to a Nats game. Usually happens when the other team is at bat.