The Baseball Project

The Baseball Project
The Baseball Project, 2011 (left to right: Steve Wynn, Linda Pitmon, Peter Buck, and Scott McCaughey)
Background information
Genres	Rock
Years active	2007–present
Labels	Yep Roc
Associated acts	R.E.M., Hindu Love Gods, The Minus 5, Tuatara
Website	www.thebaseballproject.net

Members	Peter Buck Scott McCaughey Linda Pitmon Steve Wynn Mike Mills

The Baseball Project is a supergroup composed of Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Scott McCaughey, Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon formed in 2007. The performers came together from discussions between McCaughey and Wynn at R.E.M.'s March 21, 2007 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. They invited Buck to play bass guitar and Pitmon on drums and recorded their first album, Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails later that year. Buck and McCaughey have previously played together in Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3, The Minus 5, R.E.M., and Tuatara. Wynn is the former leader of The Dream Syndicate as well as Gutterball and currently plays with Pitmon in Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3.

The second album from The Baseball Project, Volume 2: High and Inside, was released on March 1, 2011 on Yep Roc Records. The band followed the record's release with a tour covering the U.S. and appearances at Spring Training games in Arizona's Cactus League.

The band also recorded a ‘real time’ commentary on the 2010 baseball season for ESPN.com: one song every month made available as a free download. The collection was released in 2011 (along with unreleased extra tracks from Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails and Volume 2: High and Inside,) as The Broadside Ballads.

Their third album, 3rd, was released in 2014.

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The Baseball Project

Peter Buck Scott McCaughey Mike Mills Linda Pitmon Steve Wynn

Albums	Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails (2008) Homerun EP (2009) Volume 2: High and Inside (2011) The Broadside Ballads (2011) 3rd (2014)

Related articles	R.E.M. The Minus 5 Tuatara Tired Pony Josh Kantor

The Minus 5

Peter Buck Scott McCaughey John Ramberg Bill Rieflin List of The Minus 5 members

Albums	Old Liquidator The Lonesome Death of Buck McCoy My Chartreuse Opinion Let the War Against Music Begin Down with Wilco In Rock The Minus 5 Killingsworth

EPs	Hello EP The Emperor of the Bathroom At the Organ

Compilations	I Don't Know Who I Am (Let the War Against Music Begin Vol. 2)

Related articles	West Because We Hate You The Baseball Project Tuatara Tired Pony Wilco Young Fresh Fellows R.E.M.

Tuatara

Peter Buck Dave Carter Jessy Greene Kevin Hudson Barrett Martin Scott McCaughey Elizabeth Pupo-Walker Steve Berlin Joe Cripps Craig Flory Justin Harwood Skerik Mike Stone

Discography	Breaking the Ethers Trading with the Enemy Cinemathique The Loading Program East of the Sun West of the Moon The Here and the Gone (with Coleman Barks)

Related articles	Mark Eitzel West The Baseball Project The Minus 5 Tired Pony

R.E.M.

Bill Berry Peter Buck Mike Mills Michael Stipe

Personnel	Nathan December Buren Fowler Peter Holsapple Barrett Martin Scott McCaughey Bill Rieflin Ken Stringfellow Joey Waronker

Managers	Bertis Downs IV Jefferson Holt

Studio albums	Murmur Reckoning Fables of the Reconstruction Lifes Rich Pageant Document Green Out of Time Automatic for the People Monster New Adventures in Hi-Fi Up Reveal Around the Sun Accelerate Collapse into Now

Compilations	Dead Letter Office Eponymous The Best of R.E.M. The Automatic Box Singles Collected In the Attic In Time iTunes Originals And I Feel Fine Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011 Complete Rarities: I.R.S. 1982–1987 Complete Rarities: Warner Bros. 1988–2011 7IN—83–88

EPs	Chronic Town Not Bad for No Tour Vancouver Rehearsal Tapes Live from London Reckoning Songs from The Olympia

Other albums	Man on the Moon r.e.m.IX R.E.M. Live Live at The Olympia Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions

Singles	"Radio Free Europe" "Talk About the Passion" "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" "Cant Get There from Here" "Driver 8" "Wendell Gee" "Fall on Me" "Superman" "The One I Love" "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" "Finest Worksong" "Orange Crush" "Stand" "Pop Song 89" "Get Up" "Losing My Religion" "Shiny Happy People" "Near Wild Heaven" "Radio Song" "Drive" "Man on the Moon" "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" "Everybody Hurts" "Nightswimming" "Find the River" "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" "Bang and Blame" "Strange Currencies" "Crush with Eyeliner" "Tongue" "E-Bow the Letter" "Bittersweet Me" "Electrolite" "How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us" "Daysleeper" "Lotus" "At My Most Beautiful" "Suspicion" "The Great Beyond" "Imitation of Life" "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)" "I'll Take the Rain" "Bad Day" "Animal" "Leaving New York" "Aftermath" "Electron Blue" "Wanderlust" "#9 Dream" "Supernatural Superserious" "Hollow Man" "Man-Sized Wreath" "Until the Day Is Done" "Mine Smell Like Honey" "Überlin" "Oh My Heart" "We All Go Back to Where We Belong"

Other songs	"Sitting Still" "Gardening at Night" "Perfect Circle" "Pretty Persuasion" "Begin the Begin" "Cuyahoga" "Ages of You" "Turn You Inside-Out" "Texarkana" "Country Feedback" "First We Take Manhattan" "Ignoreland" "Dark Globe" "Star 69" "New Test Leper" "All the Right Friends" "Out in the Country"

Videos	Succumbs Tourfilm Pop Screen This Film Is On Parallel Road Movie In View Perfect Square When the Light Is Mine R.E.M. Live This Is Not a Show R.E.M. Live from Austin, TX REMTV

Related articles	Discography List of songs Tours Peter Buck Automatic Baby Hindu Love Gods The Baseball Project Tired Pony Athens Andover "I Belong to You" Hib-Tone Surprise Your Pig: A Tribute to R.E.M. Drive XV: A Tribute to Automatic for the People "Homer the Moe" Scott Litt

Tired Pony

Iain Archer Peter Buck Richard Colburn Jacknife Lee Gary Lightbody Scott McCaughey Troy Stewart

Albums	The Place We Ran From (2010) The Ghost of the Mountain (2013)

Related articles	R.E.M. The Minus 5 Tuatara The Baseball Project Snow Patrol

Authority control	MusicBrainz: fbc4d88b-ee30-4cb8-b102-37826d88206b

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