Baseball (TV series)

Baseball is a 1994 American Emmy Awardwinning television documentary miniseries created by Ken Burns about the game of baseball. First broadcast on PBS, this was Burns ninth documentary and won the 1995 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series.

The documentary is divided into nine parts, each referred to as an inning, following the division of a baseball game. Each inning reviews a particular era in time, mentioning notable moments in the world and in America itself, and begins with a brief prologue that acts as an insight to the game during that era. The prologue ends with the playing of The StarSpangled Banner just as a real baseball game would begin, being performed usually by a brass band, with a couple of exceptions The 1920s, where the rendition is played by a piano of the era, and the 1960s, where the rendition 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. Roughly halfway through each inning, a title card appears, reading Bottom of the inning, dividing the episode in two parts in a manner also recalling the game in the seventh inning, the Bottom is immediately preceded by the seventhinning stretch, in which several of the guests sing renditions of Take Me Out to the Ball Game.Major themes explored throughout the documentary are those of race, business, labor relations, and the relationship between baseball and society. The series had an audience of 45 million viewers, which makes it the most watched program in Public Television history. ........

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