Music Career
Even during his baseball career, McDowell played guitar in various groups in the alternative rock genre, usually performing during the baseball off-season.
McDowell's band, Stickfigure, was formed in 1992, following a tour with his former band, V.I.E.W., as the opening act for The Smithereens.
In 2008, musicians Scott McCaughey (of The Minus 5), Steve Wynn, Linda Pitmon, and Peter Buck formed The Baseball Project to pay homage to America 's greatest pastime. Their album Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails contains the song The Yankee Flipper, a tribute to their friend Jack McDowell and a confession that a long night of drinking with the musicians may have led to the infamous finger to the crowd.
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