If you want a video to go viral, you would simply need to upload Mr. Met, the Astros' old rainbow jerseys and the "Who's on First" routine. There are three things guaranteed to raise a smile in baseball: references to Mr. "It will either be an older generation of fans excited to see it and getting a big kick out of it, or parents with their kids, sitting the kids down and saying, 'You have to see this.' In a day and age when so much has changed, it's good to see something kind of timeless.'' To Jimmy Fallon, every comedian should study it. "It is one of the most popular things we have in the museum.
"It seems to never grow old,'' says Erik Strohl, the Hall's senior director of exhibitions and collections. "That should be played in every ballpark."Īlas, Abbott and Costello's " Who's on First" plays far less often in ballparks these days than does the Psy's "Gangnam Syle'' but at least it has been playing on a continuous loop at the Baseball Hall of Fame for decades. I said, 'Are you really sure you want to show your age like that?'"Ībbott nonetheless loves the "Who's on First" routine, despite growing weary of the repeated jokes about his name. "I was walking around in spring training with 'Abbott' on the back of my jersey and someone dropped an Abbott and Costello line on me. "It got to the point that when I was older and more brash," Abbott recalls, "I would say, 'Is that all you got?' Or, 'Boy, I never heard that before.'"Ībbott, who pitched for six teams over his 11-year big league career, says the references began dying out in the mid- and late '90s because, he assumes, fewer players and fans had heard of Abbott and Costello. "WHO'S ON FIRST!?!?" They performed the skit in vaudeville for a number of years before Bud Abbott and Lou Costello introduced it on national radio in 1938. "Hey, AAA-BETTTTTT!!!!!" people would yell. The greatest comedy sketch of all timeĮx-major leaguer Paul Abbott, now the pitching coach for the Class A Greenville Drive in South Carolina, remembers hearing the never-ending Abbott and Costello and "Who's on First'' references when he was advancing through the minor leagues as a player in the late 1980s. Who's on first, What's on second and I Don't Know is on third.
I want you to tell me the names of the fellows on the team.ĪBBOTT: I'm telling you. For instance, we have Who's on first, What's on second and I Don't Know is on third.ĬOSTELLO: That's what I want to find out. ABBOTT: You know, they give ballplayers very peculiar names nowadays.
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