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Peggy Duquesnel, an accomplished jazz musician who had tickled the ivories for the Angels since , was dismissed before the season started. Baseball purists have decried the trend toward recorded music as another example of the sport abandoning its roots.
But by that logic, ballparks never should have allowed organs in the first place. Ballpark entertainment has taken a number of twists over the decades, from tightrope walkers and exploding scoreboards to giant chickens and outfield geysers. In the s, brass bands strolled through the stands, says Tim Wiles, director of research at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.
Despite such protests, the organ has carved out a memorable niche in baseball lore. When one of his batters homered, the contraption erupted with strobe lights, pinwheels, fireworks and the sounds of sirens, fog horns and crashing trains. Another turning point in ballpark theatrics occurred in , when Ted Giannoulas donned his radio-station chicken costume and began cavorting in the bleachers at San Diego Padre games, paving the way for legions of team mascots.
A year after the Chicken hatched, the Baltimore Orioles ushered in the era of rock music at ballgames, an idea that quickly swept through the majors. Although rock songs and mascot antics chipped away at organ time, the real beginning of the end was the video scoreboard, which premiered in at Dodger Stadium. She's become an important part of the Sox lineup, which says a lot about Major League Baseball organists nowadays.
Chicago is, in a sense, a stadium-organ town. The organ was introduced in the Windy City in by another ballclub. Moreland is one of three women who play the organ for an MLB team. More than half of the 30 teams in the MLB have organists, which is a bump up from 10 years ago. Most importantly, the tradition is still around after a time many thought organs would have to pipe down for good. Baseball experts say stadium organs peaked in the '60s and '70s, but they've always had to compete for time with other ballpark entertainment.
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