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Title: Baseball

Overview: The history of the sport of baseball in America, told through archival photos, film footage, and the words of those who contributed to the game in each era. Writers, historians, players, baseball personnel, and fans review key events and the significance of the game in America's history.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.4 (38 votes)

Cast

  • Narrator (voice): John Chancellor
  • Various (voice): Adam Arkin
  • Self: Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Self: Mickey Mantle
  • Self: George Plimpton
  • Various (voice): Eli Wallach
  • Self: Mike Barnicle
  • Various (voice): Arthur Miller
  • Various (voice): Paul Newman
  • Various (voice): M. Emmet Walsh
  • Various (voice): Keith Carradine
  • Various (voice): Delroy Lindo
  • Various (voice): Michael Moriarty
  • Self: Bob Costas
  • Self: John Sayles
  • Various (voice): David Caruso
  • Self: Studs Terkel
  • Self: Hank Aaron
  • Self: Mario Cuomo
  • Self: Gerald Early
  • Various (voice): Ossie Davis
  • Various (voice): Stephen King
  • Various (voice): Amy Madigan
  • Self: Daniel Okrent
  • Various (voice): Garrison Keillor
  • Self: Red Barber
  • Self: Buck O'Neil
  • Various (voice): Derek Jacobi
  • Various (voice): Jerry Stiller
  • Self: Arthur Ashe
  • Various (voice): Ed Harris
  • Self: Vin Scully
  • Self: Omar Vizquel
  • Various (voice): Al Lewis
  • Various (voice): LaTanya Richardson Jackson
  • Various (voice): John Turturro
  • Various (voice): Paul Winfield
  • Self: Shelby Foote
  • Various (voice): Philip Bosco
  • Various (voice): Gregory Peck
  • Self: Marvin Miller
  • Self: George Will
  • Self: Billy Crystal
  • Various (voice): Alan King
  • Self: Stephen Jay Gould
  • Various (voice): Jason Robards
  • Various (voice): Gregory Hines
  • Various (voice): Jesse Jackson
  • Various (voice): Anthony Hopkins
  • Self: Ted Williams
  • Self: John Thorn
  • Self: Roger Angell
  • Various (voice): Paul Roebling
  • Self: Thomas Boswell
  • Self: Charles McDowell
  • Self: Donald Hall
  • Self: Robert Creamer
  • Various (voice): John Cusack
  • Various (voice): Loren Dean
  • Self: Curt Flood
  • Various (voice): Jody Powell
  • Self: Sammie Haynes
  • Self: Manuel Márquez-Sterling
  • Various (voice): Aidan Quinn
  • Self: Rachel Robinson
  • Self: Bob Feller
  • Self: Shirley Povich
  • Self: Clyde Sukeforth
  • Self: Tom Wicker
  • Self: Riley Stewart
  • Various (voice): Stephen Lang
  • Various (voice): Julie Harris
  • Various (voice): Gene Jones
  • Self: Willie Morris
  • Baseball - Inning One: Our Game (Miniseries - Episode 1)

    In New York City, in the 1840s, people need a diversion from the "railroad pace" at which they work and live. They find it in a game of questionable origins. Inning One, Our Game, looks at the origins of baseball in the 1840s and takes the story up to 1900. Burns refutes the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown and traces its roots instead to the earliest days of the nation.

    Baseball - Inning Two: Something Like a War (Miniseries - Episode 2)

    In 1894, a sportswriter named Byron Bancroft "Ban" Johnson takes over a struggling minor league - the Western League - and turns it into a financial success. Inning Two, Something Like a War, takes viewers through 1910 and introduces some of the game's most celebrated and colorful characters, including Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson.

    Baseball - Inning Three: The Faith of Fifty Million People (Miniseries - Episode 3)

    Examine the century's second decade, which was dominated by the Black Sox scandal. George Herman “Babe” Ruth makes his first major league appearance (as a member of the Boston Red Sox) and a wave of immigration helps fill the stands with new fans, eager to “become American” by learning America's game.

    Baseball - Inning Four: A National Heirloom (Miniseries - Episode 4)

    This episode concentrates on Babe Ruth, whose phenomenal performance thrilled the nation throughout the 1920s and rescued the game from the scandal of the previous decade.

    Baseball - Inning Five: Shadow Ball (Miniseries - Episode 5)

    The story of the Negro Leagues in the 1930s. “Shadow Ball” refers to a common pre-game feature in which the players staged a mock game with an imaginary ball. Though unintended, the pantomime was an apt metaphor for the exclusion of blacks from major league play at that time.

    Baseball - Inning Six: The National Pastime (Miniseries - Episode 6)

    This episode covers the 1940s and includes Joe DiMaggio's celebrated hitting streak, the awe-inspiring performance of Ted Williams and what Burns calls “baseball's finest moment” — the debut of Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

    Baseball - Inning Seven: The Capitol of Baseball (Miniseries - Episode 7)

    Viewers are taken through the 1950s when New York City had three successful baseball teams and dominated the World Series. By the end of the decade, the Giants and Dodgers had left New York, a signal that the old game was changed forever.

    Baseball - Inning Eight: A Whole New Ball Game (Miniseries - Episode 8)

    The field is moved to the 1960s. This episode traces the emergence of television, the expansion to new cities and the building of anonymous multipurpose stadiums that robbed the game of its intimacy and some of its urban following.

    Baseball - Inning Nine: Home (Miniseries - Episode 9)

    The final episode looks at baseball from the 1970s to the present, including the establishment of the free agent system, the rise in player salaries, the continued expansion, the dilution of talent, the ongoing battles between labor and management and the scandals.

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