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Format

Baseball is similar to Burns' previous documentaries (most notably, The Civil War) in that he uses archived pictures and film footage mixed with interviews for his visual presentation. Actors provide voice over reciting written work (letters, speeches, etc.) over pictures and video. The episodes are interspersed with the music of the times, whether taken from previous Burns series, original played music, or recordings ranging from Louis Armstrong to Elvis Presley. Late NBC News Anchorman John Chancellor narrated. The Civil War was a highly popular and acclaimed PBS documentary about the American Civil War created by Sam Sim, and released on PBS in September 1990. ... Louis[1] Armstrong[2] (4 August 1901[3] – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo[4] and Pops, was an American jazz musician. ... Elvis redirects here. ... NBC News endcap, used from 2002 to present. ... Chancellor (left), with David Brinkley, in a 1976 ad for the NBC Radio network. ...

The documentary is divided into nine parts (each appropriately referred to as an "inning", following the division of the game). Each "inning" reviewed a particular era in time, and began with a brief prologue that acts as an insight to the game during that era. The prologue ends with the playing of "The Star Spangled Banner" (just as a real baseball game would), with the particular rendition played as it might have been in the era being covered in that inning (most notably, while covering the 1960's, the rendition of the Star Spangled Banner used is the version played by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock). In some "inning" episodes, a period version of the baseball anthem Take Me Out to the Ball Game is used. Before the main feature, a brief preview and the events of the time of the "inning" to come follows. An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably baseball and cricket – during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. ... Nicholson took the copy Key gave him to a printer, where it was published as a broadside on September 17 under the title The Defence of Fort McHenry, with an explanatory note explaining the circumstances of its writing. ... Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitar virtuoso, singer and songwriter. ... Woodstock may refer to: Woodstock Music and Art Festival, a 1969 U.S. rock festival which inspired a 1970 Warner Bros. ... Sex and the City episode, see Take Me Out to the Ballgame (SATC episode). ...

Major themes explored throughout the documentary are those of race, business, baseball and society, and labor relations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 orginized Baseball's response to the Great Depression.

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.

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.

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.

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 cancelled due to a players' strike. This marked the first time since 1904 that the World Series was not played.

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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
• 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
• George Will, political commentator

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• 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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External links

• PBS page on Baseball
• Baseball at the Internet Movie Database