The correct title is merely "Some Southpaw Pitching" and it was written as
one of Ives' piano studies in 1908. Other baseball pieces by Ives are:
"All The Way Around And Back" (1906) a short orchestral piece- the batter
hits what looks like a homer and the runner on first makes it all the way
around to third, but it's a foul ball, at which point the "run" retrogrades
in diminuated form.
"Baseball Take-off" (1898) The pianist literally "hits a home run" by
slamming a baseball bat down onto the keyboard. A few stray, quiet notes
struck afterward depict the homer sailing through the sky.
Uncle Dave Lewis
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