Violinist Plays Star-Spangled Banner on Baseball Bat

True.

What's more 4th of July than a violin and baseball?

Long story short: National Symphony Orchestra violinist Glenn Donnellan said to himself, "Well, let's see if I can make one."

And so he did, repurposing a Louisville Slugger into an instrument capable of a perfomance impressive enough that he may be asked to play it before a Washington Nationals game.

Said Donnellan to the Washington Post's Anne Midgette, in an article on the front page of today's Washington Post Style section, "I thought it would be cool to say to the kids, 'Hey, you can make your own.'"

Got that right.