The Baseball Project

Tue., Sept. 15, 7:30 p.m., $19-$24, with fellow Wynn/McCaughey acts The Minus 5 and Steve Wynn IV, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

by Brian Howard

rock/pop

I'm an insane baseball fan, so you'll forgive me when I admit the saddest song I've ever heard is "Harvey Haddix" by supergroup The Baseball Project (Steve Wynn, Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck, Linda Pitmon), about a guy who pitched a 12-inning perfect game only to be undone (and thus ignored by the record books) in the 13th because his stupid Pirates couldn't score a single stinking run behind the best pitching performance ever, period. The Baseball Project's album, Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails, spins 12 more tales of baseball lore — like the drunken, 1903 Niagara Falls death of Phillie Ed Delahanty — into strummy sing-alongs. They never play live. Don't strike out on this.