Two Hit Kings Together - Pollard and Rose

It's weird, this blogging thing. Now that everybody throws up pics and videos and links on Facebook all day long, it feels like I regularly see things posted there that might make good blog posts. That's the case with this story below on two cool Cincy/Dayton cats - Pete Rose (MLB's all-time hit leader) and Robert Pollard (pop-music-in-my-head's all-time hit song writer).

SPIN had the story (and the accompanying pic here) about two weeks ago, just after I wrote another Pollard piece on an interview he did. But all the DtS boys and assorted Blowfish all put up the SPIN story all over their Facebook pages on 4/29. So here I am two weeks later, finally writing about this. (sigh)

The news is that ex-GBV honcho Robert Pollard is doing the rockin' music for "4,192 - The Crowning of the Hit King", an upcoming documentary about baseball's all-time hits leader, Pete Rose, and asked Pollard to score the movie and write some anthems for it. As a star athlete earlier in his life, it was a no-brainer for Pollard, who told SPIN:

"They were looking for someone to do all the music and Matt said, "Bob's got thousands of songs, he's all you need." I met with them a few weeks ago and saw a rough cut and they said they wanted a lot of anthemic stuff. It's Pete Rose, he's got heart. Muscle and heart. They're using instrumental versions of songs that already exist, but I'm also gonna write one new song for them for the main theme -- five minutes long and building up to a big crescendo. I'm picking all these kick-ass songs for it. They want me to slow it down in certain spots, but it's Charlie Hustle, man."

So it looks cool! As a baseball playing kid in Chicago, I idolized Rose's hitting prowess. It was exciting to see him try to surpass Ty Cobb's record, which he eventually did on (get this) Sept. 11th, 1985.

There is a 4,192 Facebook page as well to stay on top of the happenings and photos around the movie. It opens this summer. Not sure when or where. And if you want to help get Rose sent to Cooperstown, sign up at the "Send Pete Rose to the Hall of Fame" Facebook page.

Watch the trailer here.