One of the many perks of being a big-league baseball player is getting to choose your “walk-up” song; that’s the few bars of music played as a hitter walks from the on-deck circle to the plate.
So when I heard Lucas Duda walk up to “All Along the Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix, I wondered how the Royals first baseman had picked a song recorded 18 years before he was born.
Duda said it was a tribute to his dad.
When Lucas was a kid his father would drive him to practices and games, and that’s the type of music that would be playing in the car.