Chapter 3: Music to My Ears I have always championed music at sports events. I mean music that is played at a reasonable volume. The sounds of music at today's arenas and ball parks are enough to drive you out of the joint. When I asked Bob Gutkowski, then head of Madison Square Garden, why the music had to be so ear-pierecing at basketball and hockey games, he shrugged and said, "It gives energy to the arena." Gutkowski left the Garden, but the sound of outrageous sound volume remained. When Shakespeare wrote, "If music be the food of love, play on," he didn't mean it at the sound level of shrieking peacocks. I worked a music category into the year's ratings column and added an off-beat piece about the St. Louis Browns to the music pieces in this chapter.
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