Josh Kantor

Joshua Kantor (born November 3, 1972) is the organist for Boston Red Sox home games at Fenway Park and plays keyboards and organ for the bands Jim's Big Ego, the Split Squad, and the Baseball Project.

Kantor grew up in Athens, Georgia, where he began taking piano lessons at age "four or five,"[1] and developed an early interest in baseball through following the Atlanta Braves.

Mary Jane Eaton (and Chloe Jr. a very small hippo), always includes the 7th Inning Stretch, a sing-a-long version of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" with one changed lyric: "I DO care if I never get back.

"[12][14] Kantor and Eaton encourage their viewers, who come from all around the world, to make donations to their local food banks in addition to being good to each other and washing their hands.

[13] The show has had a number of "secret surprise special guests" including Peter Gammons, Bob Kendrick, Joe Castiglione, Mike Mills, Kelly Hogan, Tanya Donelly, Ted Allen, Gary Louris and John Jackson, Ira Kaplan, Haben Girma, Dale Murphy, Ben Gibbard, Dave Davis, Steve Gorman, Kathy Valentine, Nate Query and Jenny Conlee, Shirley Burkovich, Maybelle Blair, and Nancy Faust.