PBS Video: Baseball, Film by Ken Burns 11-Disc DVD Set Including The 10th Inning

Description: Why is this for sale? Another from my late hubby DVD Collection. He was meticulous in caring for his media. 99% of the time, he was the only one to touch them. If by some strange chance he would allow me to load a DVD, it was with supervision and instruction (Now you know why he was the only one to touch them!). The good news is anything you purchase from his collection will guarantee the discs are pristine. Baseball - A film by Ken Burns 1st Inning – Our GameThis 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 20th century, to where professional leagues make the game grow in popularity, and notoriety, throughout the growing nation. 2nd Inning – Something Like A WarThis 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, as well as the emergence of the game's first great stars, Christy Mathewson and Honus Wagner, who help to clean up baseball's previously bad reputation as a rowdy, brawling game. 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 best selling The Glory of Their Times. 3rd Inning – The Faith of Fifty Million PeopleThis inning covers approximately 1910 to 1920, and follows baseball as it goes through its greatest era of popularity yet. 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 people put in the game's fairness. 4th Inning – A National HeirloomThis 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. The title comes from what sports writers called Ruth. During an interview given to MLB Network during the series' re-airing in 2009, Burns stated he originally wanted to title the 4th Inning "That Big Son-of-a-Bitch", a name given to Ruth by many in the game during that era. However, the companion book uses this title. 5th Inning – Shadow BallThis inning covers approximately 1930 to 1940. 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 organized Baseball's response to the Great Depression, as well as the sad decline of its most iconic star, Babe Ruth, and the emergence of new heroes, like Bob Feller, Hank Greenberg, and Joe DiMaggio. 6th Inning – The National PastimeThis 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 to play Major League Baseball, led by Jackie Robinson. This inning also looks at how the game responded to World War II and how the game became, more than ever, a symbol of America itself. 7th Inning – The Capital of BaseballThis inning covers approximately 1950 to 1960. Burns emphasizes the greatness of the three teams based in New York (the New York Yankees, the New York Giants, and Brooklyn Dodgers). This inning also covers one of baseball's golden eras and how America's own changes, such as leaving urban areas and heading west to more open suburbs, caused baseball to follow. 8th Inning – A Whole New BallgameThis inning covers approximately 1960 to 1970. As the nation underwent turbulent changes, baseball was not immune, as Babe Ruth's beloved record of 60 home runs in a season is threatened by a sullen and complicated player, Roger Maris, and for the first time in decades, pitchers, led by stars Sandy Koufax and Bob Gibson, dominate the game. The loss of home run power and betrayal to the game's past, combined with the meteoric rise of football, cause many to turn their back on baseball. Expansion and labor are major topics in this inning. 9th Inning – HomeThe final inning covers approximately 1970 to 1992. While baseball survived the 1960s, the changes were not over, and in some ways, its most bitter conflicts were just beginning. Major topics included the formation of the players' union, the owners' collusion, free agency, and drugs, as well as gambling, scandals. However, the game manages to win back the hearts of many with such moments as the excitement of the 1975 World Series and the return of the New York Yankees to dominance. The documentary ends with an ironic boast baseball (and indirectly the World Series) had survived wars, depressions, pandemics, and numbers of scandals and thus could never be stopped. The 1994 World Series, the series to be played the year the film first aired on PBS, was cancelled due to a players' strike. This marked the first time since 1904 the World Series was not played. 10th Inning – (Episode 1, Top of the 10th)This two part, four hour encore presentation covers stories from 1992 to 2010. The first part discusses the labor stoppage of the 1990s, which disgruntles fans as well as Mark McGwire's and Sammy Sosa's pursuit of the home run record in 1998. 10th Inning – (Episode 2, Bottom of the 10th)This two part, four hour encore presentation covers stories from 1992 to 2010. The second part spends a fair amount of time covering the steroid scandal in the 2000s, as well as the role baseball played in helping the nation heal from 9/11, and how the game, even in the midst of America's greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression continue to become as popular as it has ever been. Interview subjectsThe following is a non-exhaustive list of people not involved in baseball who were interviewed in the documentary: Arthur Ashe, tennis playerRoger Angell, editor and writer, The New YorkerMike Barnicle, writerThomas Boswell, Washington Post columnist.Howard Bryant, writer, ESPNMario Cuomo, former governor of New York (and a former prospect in the Pittsburgh Pirates system)Robert Creamer, writer, Sports IllustratedBilly Crystal, actor, comedianGerald Early, Professor of Modern Letters, Washington University in St. LouisShelby Foote, writer and historianDoris Kearns Goodwin, writer and historianStephen Jay Gould, evolutionary biologistDonald Hall, poet and 14th U.S. Poet LaureateGary Hoenig, journalistManuel Marquez-Sterling, historianCharley McDowell, journalistWillie Morris, writerDaniel Okrent, public editor, The New York TimesKeith Olbermann, broadcasterThomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill, Jr., former Speaker of the United States House of RepresentativesGeorge Plimpton, writerShirley Povich, sports writer, Washington PostJohn Sayles, filmmaker (most notably Eight Men Out)Studs Terkel, writer and journalistJohn Thorn, historianTom Verducci, writer, Sports Illustrated and television commentator on TBS and the MLB NetworkGeorge 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: Hank AaronRed Barber, broadcasterA.B. "Happy" Chandler, Commissioner of BaseballBob Costas, broadcasterCharles "Chub" Feeney, executive, New York/San Francisco GiantsDonald Fehr, MLBPA PresidentBob FellerCurt FloodMilt GastonBilly HermanBill "the Spaceman" LeeMickey MantlePedro MartínezMarvin Miller, union organizer for Major League playersBuck O'NeilDouble Duty RadcliffeJimmie ReeseRachel Robinson, widow of Jackie RobinsonMamie Ruth, sister of Babe RuthBud Selig, CommissionerVin Scully, broadcasterClyde Sukeforth, scout and manager, Brooklyn DodgersIchiro SuzukiJoe TorreOmar VizquelTed Williams

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