The Baseball Ballads
"Baseball's troubadour poet laureate...creates a new chapter in the folklore of our national pastime." --Tim Wiles, director of research, National Baseball Hall of Fame Library"Breathless tales...short stories...one of the most pleasing voices in the genre." --Creative Loafing (Charlotte, North Carolina)"Brodsky hits these tracks out of the park...These are tales of baseball’s quirky, dedicated and sometimes unloved participants." --Asheville Citizen-Times (June, 2002)"Brodsky turns his eye for irony on the whole of baseball history, and comes up with some spectacularly improbable stories." --PopMatters"Often overlooked when critics remark on Brodsky’s baseball tunes is that these are, first and foremost, people stories." --The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC)"One of the most insightful and well-rounded collections of baseball songs in recent memory...classics worthy of the national pastime." --Baseball America (November 11 - 24, 2002)"The CD's a history lesson, delivered by an excellent storyteller, that serves up some of the odder personalities in baseball." --LouisvilleMusic.com"These songs are not so much about baseball as they are about people...vehicles for larger messages." --Dirty Linen"This is a grand-slam home run of an album!" --Dirty Linen, February/March 2003"Tremendous new CD...This is gorgeous music that might even teach you a little baseball history while you're singing along." --Jayson Stark, ESPN.com