BASEBALL COACH HAS HIT WITH PROTEST SONG

BASEBALL COACH HAS HIT WITH PROTEST SONG



SAN DIEGO (Wireless Flash) – A major league baseball coach is taking a swing at the pop charts with a big league protest song. Tim Flannery – who is a coach with the San Diego Padres – has released a ditty entitled “The Baseball Song,” that takes a few hits at how the game has changed. The baseball ballad was inspired by an evening he spent with members of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates and has lyrics like, The agent called the office/ Multiyear he said/ A limousine in every town/ Or else the deal is dead. Flannery says baseball players who’ve heard the song have been emotionally “moved” by it, but he admits a few asked him point blank: “Why’d you name names?” “The Baseball Song” is available at www.mp3.com/timflannery

Fri 05-18-01