I recently picked up a CD titled Passin’ It On: America’s Baseball Heritage in Song by Terry Cashman. The album contained “Opening Day,” “The Ballad of Herb Score,” “Baseball Ballet,” “Third Base Coach” and 17 other baseball-related songs, including, of course, “Talkin’ Baseball.” This is a CD that belongs in every true baseball and music fan’s collection. Listening to the songs made me wonder what Cashman has been doing since 1981 when “Talkin’ Baseball” was released. I decided to find out.
Besides being a great baseball fan and player (he played professional baseball in the minor league with the Detroit Tigers organization in the 1950s), Cashman had a career as a singer with bands The Chevrons, Buchanan Brothers, Cashman, Pistilli & West, Cashman & West, and he was instrumental in the career of the great Jim Croce.
GOLDMINE: We’ll go back to where it all started. You were born in New York City in 1941 as Dennis Minogue. Why the name change and where did Cashman come from?
Dennis Minogue is my given name, and after I gave up playing baseball, I got a job at ABC Records, and one of the
