Organist Ejected From Baseball Game!

[Allan]

In 1985 organist Wilbur Snapp was "ejected" from a minor league baseball game that was being played at the Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Florida.  Snapp began playing a rendition of "Three Blind Mice" after the umpire made a call that he did not agree with.  The umpire was not amused.  Too funny.   

[Nina_too]

Baseball organist is one of my fantasy careers. 

As for ejecting the poor guy, why is that any different than playing that "hey hey, goodbye" song when they pull a pitcher out?  I think 3 blind mice is actually pretty funny.

But baseball people take things really seriously.  I remember in the 2001 World Series when the D'backs played the Yankees.  After the 1st game (which the D'backs won in Phx  ), the PA guy started the first few chords of "New York, New York," then scratched the needle across the album and replaced it with some other song.

It was a big, huge hairy deal afterward, Yankees fans saying it was unsportsmanlike, unfair and uncouth (yeah, like we need to be lectured to about appropriate baseball behavior by Yankees fans...).

Oh sorry, did you say you were from New York??