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Baseball was an Emmy Award-winning 1994 documentary series by Ken Burns about the game of baseball. It was broadcast on PBS. It was Burns' ninth documentary. An Emmy Award. ...
This is a list of television-related events in 1994. ...
Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American documentary filmmaker. ...
Picture of Fenway Park. ...
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ...
Format Like Burns' previous documentaries (most notably, "The Civil War"), he uses archived pictures and film footage mixed with interviews for his visual presentation. Often over the pictures and video, actors provide voice over, reciting written work (letters, speeches, etc.). A narrator provides cohesion to the whole documentary (historian David McCullough, who also narrated "The Civil War," provided the narration). The Civil War was a highly popular and acclaimed PBS documentary about the American Civil War created by Ken Burns, and released on PBS in September 1990. ...
David McCullough (born July 7, 1933) is an American historian and bestselling author. ...
The Civil War was a highly popular and acclaimed PBS documentary about the American Civil War created by Ken Burns, and released on PBS in September 1990. ...
The documentary was divided into nine parts (each appropriately refered to as an "inning", following the division of the game). Each "inning" reviewed a particular era in time.
Each "inning" began with a brief prologue that acts as a review of the previous "inning" as well as a preview of the "inning" to come. 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 same as played by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock). 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. ...
Picture of Fenway Park. ...
Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix (27 November 1942 – 18 September 1970) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. ...
Woodstock may refer to: Woodstock Music and Art Festival, a 1969 U.S. rock festival which inspired a 1970 Warner Bros. ...
Major themes explored throughout the documentary are those of race, business, and labor relations.
The Nine Innings 1st Inning: Our Game
This inning 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. Ty Cobb is discussed in depth (the title of this inning comes from one of his many quotes). The American League (or formally the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs) is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States of America and Canada. ...
This article refers to the American baseball league. ...
Tyrus Raymond Ty Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed The Georgia Peach, was an American baseball player generally considered to be the greatest player of the dead ball era (1900 – 1920), although some contemporary observers would have chosen Honus Wagner or Tris Speaker. ...
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 there being a fair game. ...
The cover of the Scribner Paperback Fiction Edition, 1995. ...
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 Babe Ruth. ...
George Herman Ruth, (b. ...
5th Inning: Shadow Ball
This inning covers approximately 1930 to 1940. While Burns has not shyed 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. Part of the History of baseball series. ...
MLB logo Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ...
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 impacted as a result of World War Two. MLB logo Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ...
Brooklyn Dodger infielder Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball in 1947. ...
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. The New York Yankees are a Major League baseball team based in The Bronx, New York City. ...
Conference NFC Division East Year Founded 1925 Home Field Giants Stadium City East Rutherford, New Jersey Team Colors Blue, Red, and White Head Coach Tom Coughlin League Championships (6) NFL Champions: 1927, 1934, 1938, 1956 Super Bowl: 1986 (XXI), 1990 (XXV) Conference Championships (9) NFL Eastern: 1956, 1958, 1959, 1961...
For the 1930s NFL team, see Brooklyn Dodgers (football). ...
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 events after 1970, approximately through 1990. 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.
Interview Subjects The following is a non-exhaustive list of people not involved in baseball who were interviewed in the documentary: - Roger Angell, editor and writer, The New Yorker
- Billy Crystal, comic actor
- Mario Cuomo, politician, then governor of New York
- Gerald L. 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
- Shirley Povich, sports writer
- John Sayles, filmmaker (most notably Eight Men Out)
- Studs Terkel, writer and journalist
- 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: Roger Angell (born 19 September 1920) was a fiction editor of The New Yorker for over 40 years, and is best known for his articulate essays on baseball for that magazine. ...
The New Yorkers first cover, which is reprinted most years on the magazines anniversary. ...
Crystal on Hollywood Squares. ...
Cuomo making a speech in mid 2004, (C-Span). ...
Washington University in St. ...
The Gateway Arch, shown here behind the Old Courthouse, is the most recognizable part of the St. ...
Shelby Foote (November 7, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was a noted author and historian of the American Civil War. ...
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a historian and writer who was born on January 4, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York, and who grew up in Rockville Centre, Long Island. ...
Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was a New York-born American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. ...
Shirley Lewis Povich (July 15, 1905 – June 4, 1998) became a sports columnist and reporter for the Washington Post in 1923. ...
Photo of John Sayles by Robert Birnbaum John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950 in Schenectady, New York) is a fiercely independent American film director and writer who frequently takes a small part in his own and other indie films. ...
Eight Men Out is a movie, released in 1988, based on the book, published in 1963, of the same name by Eliot Asinof. ...
Photo of Studs Terkel by Robert Birnbaum Louis Studs Terkel (born May 16, 1912) is a United States writer and broadcaster. ...
George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is an American columnist, journalist, and author. ...
Henry Louis Hank Aaron (born February 5, 1934), baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is best known for setting the record for most home runs in a career (755), surpassing the previous mark of 714 by Babe Ruth. ...
Walter Lanier Red Barber (February 17, 1908 - October 22, 1992) was an American sportscaster. ...
Robert Quinlan Costas (born March 22, 1952 in Queens, New York) is an American sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s. ...
Robert William Andrew Feller, nicknamed Rapid Robert, is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher and Hall of Famer. ...
Curt Flood (January 18, 1938–January 20, 1997) was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball. ...
Bill The Spaceman Lee (born December 28, 1946 in Burbank, California) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. ...
Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995) was an American baseball player, regarded as one of the best of all time. ...
Marvin Julian Miller (born April 14, 1917 in The Bronx, New York City) is the former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) from 1966 - 1982. ...
John Jordan Buck ONeil is a baseball player best associated with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League. ...
Ted Radcliffe c. ...
Brooklyn Dodger infielder Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball in 1947. ...
Vin Scully publicity photo, © Los Angeles Dodgers Vincent Edward Scully (born November 29, 1927 in The Bronx, New York) is an American sportscaster, known primarily as the play-by-play voice of Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball games. ...
Ted Williams & Tom Yawkey Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002), nicknamed The Splendid Splinter, Teddy Ballgame, The Thumper and The Kid, was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball who played 19 seasons, twice interrupted by military service as a Marine Corps pilot, with the Boston...
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