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1.Baseball - A Film by Ken Burns starring: Hank Aaron, Bud Abbott, Roger Angell, Arthur Ashe, Red Barber April 16, 1995
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This series was so interesting and so well done that I bought sets for two friend and three of my children. Not only did it cover baseball it covered Americana.

2.Fabulous Fenway starring: Mike Barnicle June 20, 2000
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This series was so interesting and so well done that I bought sets for two friend and three of my children. Not only did it cover baseball it covered Americana.

3.Baseball - Inning 2, Something Like a War (1900-1910) starring: Hank Aaron, Bud Abbott, Roger Angell, Arthur Ashe, Red Barber September 23, 1994
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We still have snow on the ground but it is opening day of Baseball which means it is time to get once again watch Ken Burns' celebrated documentary on "Baseball" as a true rite of spring. The second volume, "Something Like A War" covers the sport's first decade in the 20th century. The decade begins with "Ban" Johnson creating the American League by sheer force of will (and the $500 more a season he offered players to bolt from the National League). Opposing Johnson was John McGraw, the great manager of the New York Giants, who was aided by Christy Mathewson, the Christian Gentleman who was Frank Merriwell incarnate. However, on the field the decade was clearly defined by the Detroit Tiger's Ty Cobb, for whom baseball was truly "something like a war." In contrast to the vitriolic Cobb, the ... Read More

4.Baseball - Inning 3, The Faith of Fifty Million People (1910-1920) starring: Hank Aaron, Bud Abbott, Roger Angell, Arthur Ashe, Red Barber September 23, 1994
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"The faith of fifty million people" comes from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" to describe Arnold Rothstein, the gambler behind the Black Sox scandal of the 1919 World Series. This third volume of Ken Burns classic "Baseball" documentary, a true rite of spring, traces the history of the sport in the Roaring Twenties, knowing full well that the decade would end with the game's lowest moment. The success of Connie Mack's Athletics is countered by stingy Charles Comisky's miserly treatment of the Chicago White Sox who would throw the series against the Reds. The creation of the Federal League keeps the labor issue alive and Burns keeps tabs as well on Branch Rickey, always with an eye out for baseball's greatest moment when Jackie Robinson would walk onto Ebbett's field (which was built ... Read More

5.Baseball - Inning 4, A National Heirloom (1920-1930) starring: Hank Aaron, Bud Abbott, Roger Angell, Arthur Ashe, Red Barber September 23, 1994
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"The faith of fifty million people" comes from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" to describe Arnold Rothstein, the gambler behind the Black Sox scandal of the 1919 World Series. This third volume of Ken Burns classic "Baseball" documentary, a true rite of spring, traces the history of the sport in the Roaring Twenties, knowing full well that the decade would end with the game's lowest moment. The success of Connie Mack's Athletics is countered by stingy Charles Comisky's miserly treatment of the Chicago White Sox who would throw the series against the Reds. The creation of the Federal League keeps the labor issue alive and Burns keeps tabs as well on Branch Rickey, always with an eye out for baseball's greatest moment when Jackie Robinson would walk onto Ebbett's field (which was built ... Read More

6.Baseball - Inning 8, A Whole New Ballgame (1960-1970) starring: Hank Aaron, Bud Abbott, Roger Angell, Arthur Ashe, Red Barber September 23, 1994
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"A Whole New Ballgame" always strikes me as being substantially different from the preceding seven "innings" of Ken Burns' celebrated "Baseball" documentary. Not only does it covers players and games I remember from my youth, most of the photographs and film clips are now in color, which seems somewhat out of place after having watched hours of images in black & white. Still, there are the soothing tones of John Chancellor, who represents the voice of spring for me each opening day when I watch "Baseball" from start to finish once again. This episode covers the Sixties, a decade that said goodbye to Ted Williams and hello to the New York Mets while economic issues continued to come to a head. The decade began with Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris chasing Babe Ruth's home run record and ended ... Read More

7.Baseball - Inning 1, Our Game (1840s-1900) starring: Hank Aaron, Bud Abbott, Roger Angell, Arthur Ashe, Red Barber September 23, 1994
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Ken Burns' "Baseball" series begins by finding a simple metaphor in Ebbets field: built in Flatbush on a garbage dump called Pigtown where the Brooklyn (Trolley) Dodgers would play and some of the greatest moments in baseball history would take place, including the day Jackie Robinson played his first game in the Major Leagues. Then Brooklyn would finally win their first pennant, only to see the team move across the country. Thus, Ebbets field is where baseball changed forever, while remaining the same. From the very start, this documentary establishes itself as a first rate classic. This "First Inning" in the celebrated mini-series that I watch again every spring, focuses on the beginnings of baseball up to 1900 (where each successive episode focuses on a specific decade). Burns covers ... Read More

8.Baseball - Inning 9, Home (1970-1994) starring: Hank Aaron, Bud Abbott, Roger Angell, Arthur Ashe, Red Barber September 23, 1994
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By the time you get to the final "innings" of Ken Burns' celebrated "Baseball" documentary it is so strange to see the game played in color, you are so used to the black & white photos and film of the earlier volumes. We are now up to the point where we clearly remember Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's home run record and Carlton Fisk's body language keeping the ball fair in Fenway Park. This is also the period where the players finally break the reserve clause because of the example of Curt Flood and the efforts of Marvin Miller. The highpoint of this documentary was when Jackie Robinson joined the Major Leagues, so it is fitting that Robinson's funeral is covered in this episode. "The Modern Era" also deals with skyrocketing salaries, the egos of players like Reggie Jackson and owners like George ... Read More

9.Baseball - Inning 6, The National Pastime (1940-1950) starring: Mike Barnicle, Mary Pratt (III), Lou Costello, George Will, Arthur Ashe September 23, 1994
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This sixth volume in Ken Burns' classic documentary on "Baseball" begins with the marvelous summer of 1941, which featured not one but two of the greatest individual achievements in the history of the sport: Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak and Ted Williams batting .406. But the event that dominates this "inning," and towards which Burns has set his sight since the opening prologue, is Jackie Roosevelt Robinson playing in the major leagues for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1942. By the time we get to this part of the documentary we fully appreciate the social and personal significance of the event for both Robinson and Branch Rickey. This episode also covers baseball during World War II, including the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, and ends with the death of Babe Ruth, thereby linking the ... Read More

10.Baseball - Inning 7, The Capital of Baseball (1950-1960) starring: Hank Aaron, Bud Abbott, Roger Angell, Arthur Ashe, Red Barber September 23, 1994
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If you are not a fan of New York baseball--as in Yankees, Dodgers and Giants--then this "inning" of Ken Burns' classic documentary series on "Baseball" is not for you because those three teams dominate this episode the way they dominated the game in the 1950's. From 1949 to 1958 there was a New York club in every World Series and in six of those series the Yankees battled the Dodgers or Giants. These were the Yankees of Casey Stengel, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle; the Dodgers of Walter Alston, Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese and Gil Hodges; the Giants of Leo Durocher, Willie Mays and Bobby Thompson. This was the decade that saw Willie Mays catch the blast from the bat of Vic Wertz and Eddie Gaedel walk on four straight pitches, where Thompson hit the most famous home ... Read More

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