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l recently finished reading this book about the history of music composed for television. I cannot imagine a more thorough coverage of the subject than what author Jon Burlingame provided. It got me thinking about some of the baseball TV themes over the years.
A very early sports TV theme was for the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports (featuring at least some baseball!)…
Sharp-eared viewers who happened to play a lot of Nintendo in the 1980s will wonder if the creators of Punch-Out paid royalties to Gillette.
A few decades later when baseball became more of a fixture on the TV dial (like the NBC Game of the Week), the This Week In Baseball theme is likely burned into the brains of fans of that era…
Hardball fans in the 1990s and early 2000s will fondly recall the MLB FOX Saturday Game of the Week synth-chords, while specifically for us here in Twins Territory we had the dulcet tones of the Midwest Sports Channel…
Also for those who grew up in the Cable TV Era, the TBS Baseball theme may conjure connections to Game 163’s and early-round playoff clashes.
But of course, they are all usurped by the utterly iconic MLB on ESPN theme. If this doesn’t immediately bring to mind images of Jon Miller & Joe Morgan calling Giants/Dodgers or Yankees/Red Sox clashes…
Of course, there’s only one little ditty that Twins fans want to hear this afternoon. Let’s hope the Target Field sound crew can spin it after a victory over the Red Birds.
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