19-05-2025
Matt Berninger: ‘Yeah, I learnt a lot from Taylor Swift'
Matt Berninger is explaining why he loves baseballs. This is not the same as loving baseball. 'I toss baseballs with my daughter but I don't follow the game,' he explains. 'I don't have a favourite team. I don't even know if I could name you a single major league player.' For Berninger, lead singer and frontman of the beloved American rock band the National, baseballs are spherical journals for jotting down song ideas. 'I have about 80 baseballs and I use them as notebooks,' he says. 'I used to fill notebooks but baseballs are so good because they're really fun to hold in your hand.' Berninger would write thoughts for titles or scraps of lyrics on baseballs and when he was searching for inspiration while
