Piano and voice - Digital Download SKU: LV.14978 Composed by W.D. Paulson. Stages (platforms), Cartoons, Sports, Contests, Courtship & love. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.14978). Baseball Brains. A Musical Novelty by the Bat and the Ball as Overheard on the Diamond. Lyrics Struck by R.D. Heinbockel. Melody Pitched by W.D. Paulson. Published 1909 by Victor Kremer Co. in Chicago. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Stages (platforms), Cartoons, Sports, Contests, Courtship & love. First line reads By the players bench there lay, on a diamond one fine day, a baseball in gown of white.. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.