This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
“Music and baseball; a perfect combination.”
That’s the pregame pitch from sportscaster Bob Costas on this freaky jock-rock CD of tunes performed by big-time baseballers. Well, maybe it’s a fine double play in his universe, but trust us, in the section of the space-time arena known as reality, Big League Rocks is a major-league washout. Call me a player-hater if you must, but after hearing “top ballplayer-musicians” (again, Bob’s words) such as Mark Langston, Paul O’Neill, Tyler Green and Luiz Gonzalez show off their respective abilities (or lack of same) on guitar, drums, piano and, ahem, bongos, I can only think of one thing worse — and that’s listening to Harry Caray and Ernie Banks golden-throat their way through two separate but equally agonizing versions of Take Me Out To The Ball Game. Put this one down in the record books as one big strikeout — with no hits and plenty of errors.
