1. Nancy Faust was born on March 11,1947 and is an American former stadium organist for Major League Baseball's Chicago White Sox.
18 Facts About Nancy Faust
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Nancy Faust was hired to succeed Bob Creed as the White Sox organist for the 1970 season by public relations director Stu Holcomb, who had seen her perform at a banquet.
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Nancy Faust's original perch at Comiskey Park was an organ booth that was established in the center field bleachers in 1960 by Bill Veeck to encourage fan interaction.
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Almost immediately, Nancy Faust became arguably the first sports organist to include pop and rock themes while playing during the games.
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Nancy Faust was the organist for the Chicago Bulls from 1975 to 1984, playing an organ set up at courtside, and for the Chicago Blackhawks from 1984 to 1989, playing Chicago Stadium's 3,663-pipe Barton pipe organ at hockey games.
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Nancy Faust was even awarded a RIAA gold record from Mercury Records, whose sales of the 1969 pop tune "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" skyrocketed after Nancy's version took the sports world by storm.
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Many other teams sent their own organists to take notes and have occasionally brought in Nancy Faust to perform at their own games.
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In October 2009, Nancy Faust announced that the 2010 baseball season would be her final season behind the keyboard.
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Nancy Faust was profiled in a feature story in that day's New York Times.
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On Sunday, October 3,2010, Nancy Faust played her last game at US Cellular.
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Nancy Faust played during the Kane County Cougars' "Night of 100 Promotions" in 2011, and returned to Fifth Third Bank Ballpark to play at select Cougars games from 2012 to 2015.
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Nancy Faust was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2018.
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Since 2022, Nancy Faust has contributed organ solo pieces to the podcast edition of Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
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Nancy Faust is prominently featured in the 2023 documentary Last Comiskey, which includes live footage of her playing the organ at Comiskey Park, as well as interviews she gave from home.
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Nancy Faust is married to Joe Jenkins and has a son, Eric.
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Nancy Faust missed only five White Sox games in her career, and those were due to the birth of her son.
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Bill Veeck used to have what Nancy Faust called "wacky promotions" and door prizes at White Sox games.
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Veeck said he was going to return it, but Nancy Faust told him she would take it.