Tonight presents you with a tough choice to make: the National Parks vs. Baseball.

The National Parks: See highlights from Ken Burns's upcoming PBS series
The National Parks: America's Best Idea and performances by Counting
Crows, Augustana, Eric Benet, Gavin DeGraw, Jose Feliciano, Carole
King, Alison Krauss and Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, and
Peter Yarrow. This event is being held in Central Park's East Meadow
and is free.

Baseball:  The Baseball Project, The Minus 5 and The Steve Wynn IV play
tonight at The Bowery Ballroom.  Although this looks like three
different bands, all three bands have the same members on this tour:
Steve Wynn, Linda Pitmon, Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck.  In fact
there will not be three separate acts, but one show in which this band
plays songs from each of the bands plus a lot of covers thrown in.

As for the baseball songs, expect ones about Harvey Haddix (who 50
years ago pitched 12 perfect innings only to give up a hit and lose the
game in the 13th), Curt Flood, Jack McDowell, Big Ed Delahanty and Pete
Rose.

National Parks: Central Park's East Meadow, 97th to 100th Sts. near
Fifth Avenue (6 Train to 96th Street, walk 3 blocks west to park) 7pm,
free

The Baseball Project/The Minus 5/The Steve Wynn IV, Bowery Ballroom, 6
Delancey Street (F Train to Delancey Street, walk west about 6 1/2
blocks just past Chrystie Street) 8pm doors, $17.

  –Eliot Wagner