Baseball

TV Mini Series
1994–2010
TV-PG
1h 44m

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9.2/10

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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.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.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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Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 3 wins & 5 nominations total

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Ironically, first aired in the fall of 1994 when much of the season and the World Series were cancelled due to a strike. This made it the only "baseball" available to millions of unhappy fans at what should have been the most exciting time of the season.

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Narrator: It is played everywhere. In parks and playgrounds and prison yards. In back alleys and farmers' fields. By small children and old men. Raw amateurs and millionaire professionals. It is a leisurely game that demands blinding speed. The only game in which the defense has the ball. It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime, and ending with the hard facts of autumn. It is a haunted game, in which every player is measured against the ghosts of all who have gone before. Most of all, it is about time and timelessness. Speed and grace. Failure and loss. Imperishable hope. And coming home.

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9/10

EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY DESPITE THE ERRORS

When it first aired, there was supposedly something like 2 dozen factual errors that were later corrected in time for the video and later dvd release. The only things I didn't like was that it focused heavily on 3 teams far more than any other. Red Sox, Brooklyn Dodgers, and Yankees. It skips from the '67 Series to the '69 Series, then it glosses over the next few years until the 1975 series. And it took all of their info on Ty Cobb on Al Stump's now debunked biography of Cobb. David Okrent, who features heavily in this also appears much later in a documentary about Tigers' legends and he admits that much of what we knew about Cobb was either overblown or outright false thanks to the biography by Charles Leerhsen (A Terrible Beauty) that was actually researched. Apart from those the documentary is another gem in Ken Burns' belt and I watch it every year at the start of the baseball season and again around World Series time.