You're listening to 20,000 hz.
Nothing says summer quite like the crack of a baseball bat.
Like most major sports, baseball is full of iconic sounds.
They're the calls of the umpire, the vendors selling popcorn and hot dogs.
Not a ball game without a hot dog.
Who wins a hot dog?
The commentary from the announcers it's it hard to rock.
This ball is back and it is gone.
But theres one sound thats completely unique to baseball, or should I say one song.
This song is so well known that virtually every american can sing it.
Whether we like baseball or not.
At least we can sing the chorus, the verses.
Well, thats another story.
Here's Lizzie Peabody, host of the Smithsonian side Door podcast.
On July 16, 2008, Dan Piazza got up from his desk at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum and left work early.
He hopped on the metro and set off across town, tucked in his bag a personal invitation to an event at the White House.
While you had to be on a list and have an invitation, anyone who had an invitation had to submit their Social Security number in advance before coming onto the south lawn of the White House.
There on the lawn, he joined the gathering crowd and took a seat under the glaring summer sun.
It was hot.
It was very hot.