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 | The Complete Baseball Series Gold Edition by Ken Burns.
All 10 episodes on 10 dvds, running time is over 23 hours.
Quality is 10 of 10 and will ship in 3 cases with artwork.
FREE SHIPPING WITHIN THE U.S., 2.00 TO CANADA, 7.00 WORLDWIDE.
Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns is an Emmy Award-winning 1994 documentary series by Ken Burns about the game of baseball. It was first broadcast on PBS. It was Burns' ninth documentary.
The Nine Innings
1st Inning - Our Game
This inning serves as an introduction to the game and the series, and covers baseball's origins and the game as it evolved prior to the twentieth century.
Original airdate: Sunday, September 18, 1994.
2nd Inning - Something Like A War
This inning covers approximately 1900 to 1910, and includes the formation of the American League and its integration with the National League, culminating in the establishment of the World Series. Ty Cobb is discussed in depth (the title of this inning comes from one of his many quotes). Many of the quotes used in this inning and of the other early innings are taken from Lawrence S. Ritter's The Glory of Their Times.
Original airdate: Monday, September 19, 1994.
3rd Inning - The Faith of Fifty Million People
This inning covers approximately 1910 to 1920. It heavily focuses on the Black Sox Scandal, taking its title from a line in the novel The Great Gatsby. The line refers to how easy it was for gamblers to tamper with the faith that people put in the game's fairness.
Original airdate: Tuesday, September 20, 1994.
4th Inning - A National Heirloom
This inning covers approximately 1920 to 1930, and focuses on baseball's recovery from the Black Sox Scandal, giving much of the credit to the increase in power hitting throughout the game, led by its savior Babe Ruth.
Original airdate: Wednesday, September 21, 1994.
5th Inning - Shadow Ball
This inning covers approximately 1930 to 1940. While Burns has not shied away from discussing the plight of African-Americans up to this point, a great deal of this inning covers the Negro Leagues, and the great players and organizers who were excluded from the Major Leagues. Also the episode deals with organized Baseball's response to the Great Depression.
Original airdate: Thursday, September 22, 1994.
6th Inning - The National Pastime
This inning covers approximately 1940 to 1950. The emphasis here is on baseball finally becoming what it had always purported to be: A national game. As African-Americans are finally permitted into Major League Baseball, led by Jackie Robinson. This inning also looks at how the game was influenced as a result of World War II.
Original airdate: Sunday, September 25, 1994.
7th Inning - The Capital of Baseball
This inning covers approximately 1950 to 1960. Burns emphasizes the greatness of the three teams based in New York (the Yankees, the Giants, and Brooklyn Dodgers). This inning also covers the major changes that are coming to baseball as teams begin to relocate.
Original airdate: Monday, September 26, 1994.
8th Inning - A Whole New Ballgame
This inning covers approximately 1960 to 1970. As the nation underwent turbulent changes, baseball was not immune. Expansion and labor are major topics in this inning.
Original airdate: Tuesday, September 27, 1994.
9th Inning - Home
The final inning covers approximately 1970 to 1993. While baseball survived the 1960s, the changes were not over, and in some ways its most bitter conflicts were just beginning. Major topics include the formation of the players' union, the owners' collusion, free agency, and drug scandals. The documentary ends with an ironic boast that baseball, and indirectly the World Series, could never be stopped. The 1994 World Series, the series to be played the year the film was aired, was canceled due to a players' strike. This marked the first time since 1904 that the World Series was not played.
Original airdate: Wednesday, September 28, 1994.
A 10th inning - At a preview screening of his 2007 documentary The War, Ken Burns spoke of very possibly coming up to date in the history of baseball with a "10th Inning" episode of his Baseball documentary.
Interview Subjects
The following is a non-exhaustive list of people not involved in baseball who were interviewed in the documentary:
Arthur Ashe, tennis player
Roger Angell, editor and writer, The New Yorker
Thomas Boswell, Washington Post columnist.
Billy Crystal, comic actor
Mario Cuomo, former governor of New York (and a former prospect in the Pittsburgh Pirates system)
Robert Creamer, writer, Sports Illustrated
Gerald Early, Professor of Modern Letters, Washington University, St. Louis
Shelby Foote, writer and historian
Doris Kearns Goodwin, writer and historian
Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionary biologist
Donald Hall, poet and 14th U.S. Poet Laureate
Charley McDowell, journalist
Willie Morris, writer
Daniel Okrent, public editor, The New York Times
George Plimpton, writer
Shirley Povich, sports writer, Washington Post
John Sayles, filmmaker (most notably Eight Men Out)
Studs Terkel, writer and journalist
John Thorn, historian
George Will, political commentator
The following is a non-exhaustive list of people who were more involved in the game of baseball, and were interviewed in the documentary:
Henry Aaron
Red Barber, broadcaster
A.B. "Happy" Chandler, Commissioner of Baseball
Bob Costas, broadcaster
Charles "Chub" Feeney, executive, New York/San Francisco Giants
Bob Feller
Curt Flood
Milt Gaston
Billy Herman
Bill "the Spaceman" Lee
Mickey Mantle
Marvin Miller, union organizer for Major League players
Buck O'Neil
Double Duty Radcliffe
Jimmie Reese
Rachel Robinson, widow of Jackie Robinson
Mamie Ruth, sister of Babe Ruth
Vin Scully, broadcaster
Clyde Sukeforth, scout and manager, Brooklyn Dodgers
Ted Williams |
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