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ESPN is holding a “Battle of the Bands” competition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the song “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”, and OH MY! There’s a crooner in the mix, Mr. John Pizzarelli! You can VOTE FOR JOHN by casting a vote using the poll in the right column on the ESPN website.

Anyone who knows me is aware of how much I love baseball. So when the worlds of baseball and family entertainment & enrichment come together, I’m as excited as I am over an extra inning win...

jazz festivals, Canada John Pizzarelli Quartet & Peter Appleyard TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival Saturday, June 28 Artists to appear as part of Grandmasters Series John Pizzarelli Quartet featuring special guest Peter Appleyard have been announced as added to the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival lineup.

and flip over to Baseball Tonight for some amazing baseball highlights. Just kidding! What you would have seen is the miraculously-named John Pizzarelli ("The wonder of it all," Foxwoods, etc.) performing a jazzified rendition of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" as the first of the nine-(9!)-part Battle of the Bands series on Baseball Tonight.

Firstly, I should give credit to my girlfriend who introduced me to Pizzarelli’s jazzy pieces. It was another evening as we spent it with laptops and a pointless chit-chat when suddenly she was so occupied with her laptop. She was watching a YouTube video on one of Pizarelli’s performance on “Here Comes the Sun” and seemed to be very enthusiastic about it.

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