“And then there's Chuck Brodsky's tremendous new CD of all baseball songs, "The Baseball Ballads," also in the folky, countrified genre...This is gorgeous music that might even teach you a little baseball
history while you're singing along.”
---Jayson Stark (ESPN)

“This is a grand-slam home run of an album!”
---Dirty Linen

“One of the most insightful and well-rounded collections of baseball songs in  recent memory...The Baseball Ballads serves as a reminder to fans about why the game pulls on the heartstrings of anyone who has rooted for the home team...Brodsky’s songs pinpoint the everyday details that comprise a  player’s life and create baseball history...The outcome is a fascinating collection of ballads that can be considered classics worthy of the national  pastime.”
 ---Baseball America

“This is a wonderful album of great songs sung with love about stories the artist obviously cares deeply about. Excellently executed, produced, and packaged.”
---SingOut!

“The Baseball Ballads” is a collection of brilliant Brodsky originals, each song reflecting some colorful character in the game...Brodsky hits these tracks out of the park, and they go on for miles...These are tales of  baseball’s quirky, dedicated and sometimes unloved participants...These are characters in the periphery, people who carved a unique niche in the game, on  and off the field...”
---Asheville Citizen-Times

“Chuck weaves breathless tales of breaking the color barrier and creates short stories of some of his own favorite players with one of the most  pleasing voices in the genre. The tales are marvelous and the rapid-fire delivery begs attention.”
---Creative Loafing (Charlotte, NC)

“The CD is a history lesson, delivered by an excellent storyteller, that
serves up some of the odder personalities in baseball...you're sure to enjoy
Brodsky's tales, and the sincerity with which he shares them.”
---LouisvilleMusic.com

“The Baseball Ballads is a collection of songs celebrating little-remembered heroes and goats, a smorgasbord of bizarro baseball history that serves as an  affectionate antidote to the game's current ills...Brodsky's mix of comedy, tragedy, and sentimental storytelling will make a lot more sense even to a neophyte than the recent rounds of salary demands and profit-sharing negotiations...Brodsky turns his eye for irony on the whole of  baseball history, and comes up with some spectacularly improbable stories...Brodsky  (who has an amiable Dylanish twang)  sings about baseball the way it used to be: unpredictable, colorful, somehow laden with moral force...he enshrines a game that mostly exists in memory.”
---PopMatters

“The Baseball Ballads is full of songs about misfits and faded glories...Brodsky’s clean fingerpicking, shaggy-dog twang and gentle melodies give the album an easy coherence, but the stories and characters are what count. These tales, obsessively researched and rendered with off-beat affection, put some skewed humanity back in a game that needs it.”
---No Depression

“One of the most enjoyable albums of any kind that I’ve ever owned.”
---Bill Ballew, Asheville Tourists Baseball Club

“Most of these songs are not so much about baseball as they are about people - people who play baseball, or watch baseball - and the songs often become vehicles for larger messages.”
---Dirty Linen

“There’s more to this songwriter than fastballs and nostalgia, of course,  but the baseball songs are illustrative of Brodsky’s strengths as a writer and performer.”
---Tulsa World

“It’s to Brodsky’s credit that these baseball songs can appeal to people
(like me) who don’t even like baseball much, and it’s because whatever
subject he touches, Brodsky is able to give it powerful human interest.”
---The Canton Voice (Ohio)

“What is often overlooked when critics remark on Brodsky’s baseball tunes is
that these songs, like most of his material, are, first and foremost, people stories.”
---The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC)