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- Season 1 overviewSep 18-Sep 28, 19949 episodesSeason 1 episodes1. Our Game Sep 18, 1994
- Filmmaker Ken Burns chronicles the rise of baseball from hobby to national sport.
- 2. Something Like a War Sep 19, 1994
- Profiles of Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, John McGraw.
- 3. The Faith of 50 Million People Sep 20, 1994
- Black Sox Scandal saw Chicago White Sox accused of throwing the 1919 series.
- 4. A National Heirloom Sep 21, 1994
- Babe Ruth's popularity throughout the 1920s rescues baseball from the Black Sox Scandal.
- 5. Shadow Ball Sep 22, 1994
- The battle between Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson in the Negro League World Series.
- 6. The National Pastime Sep 25, 1994
- After the 1941 season, war disrupts the sport as players are drafted into the military.
- 7. The Capital of Baseball Sep 26, 1994
- Interviews and film document memorable moments of New York City baseball.
- 8. A Whole New Ball Game Sep 27, 1994
- The popularity of football and the union organization transform baseball in the end of the 1960s.
- 9. Home Sep 28, 1994
- Game six of the 1975 World Series, Kirk Gibson's World Series home run and Nolan Ryan's career.
Baseball is a 1994 American television documentary miniseries created by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns about the history of the sport of baseball. First broadcast on PBS, this was Burns' ninth documentary and won the 1995 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series. [1]
- Documentary Film
The Tenth Inning, a 2010 follow up, is a new chapter telling the tumultuous story of the national pastime from the 1990s to the present day. Baseball premiered on PBS: September 1994. Baseball...
Baseball: With Daniel Okrent, George F. Will, John Chancellor, Doris Kearns Goodwin. A documentary on the history of the sport with major topics including Afro-American players, player/team owner relations and the resilience of the game.
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- 1994-09-18
- Documentary, History, Sport
- 104
Explore Ken Burns Shows. An American epic overflowing with heroes and hopefuls, scoundrels and screwballs.
A Whole New Ballgame: Directed by Ken Burns. With Roger Angell, Yogi Berra, Thomas Boswell, George Carlin. The 1960s are a turbulent decade for America. There are race riots, anti-war protests, hippies, Woodstock. It is also a turbulent decade for baseball, as one by one its "sacred" institutions fall.
- (156)
- Documentary, History, Sport
- Ken Burns
- 1994-09-27
1 h 53 min. TV-PG. On June 19, 1846, at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey, a team of well-dressed gentlemen, the Knickerbockers, play the first game of baseball. By 1856, the game is already being called “the national pastime,” or simply, “Our Game.” But the nation is about to be torn apart.
Home: Directed by Ken Burns. With Roger Angell, Red Barber, Thomas Boswell, John Chancellor. America and the world are seeing more changes than at any time in history. And so is baseball.
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