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List Price: $179.98 Features • Box set • Black & White • Closed-captioned • Color • NTSC In Theaters : 18 September, 1994 DVD Release : 17 October, 2000 |
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Baseball - A Film by Ken Burns description After the national success of his 11-hour epic, The Civil War--the highest-rated miniseries in public-television history--many wondered if Ken Burns could capture the same energy and passion with smaller subjects. His reply, the 18-hour history of America's greatest sport, Baseball, not only quieted these worries, it also perhaps surpassed his prior achievement. Massive in scope (it covers more than 100 years), exhausting in detail, and filled with celebrities, journalists, politicians, historians, and the men who played the game, Burns's romantic love letter to the game achieves the impossible: even those who hate baseball can't help but become immersed in it. This is because Burns doesn't just detail the great players and the memorable plays and games; he also presents baseball as a cultural and social mirror, reflecting the beauty and hypocrisy of the nation that created it. Divided into nine innings, two hours each in length, the video examines complex social issues such as segregation, racial inequality (its section on Jackie Robinson, baseball's first African American player, should be required school viewing), labor battles between owners and players, politics, technology and gender conflicts, among others. Then, of course, there's fascinating footage and biographies on the players--troubled icons such as Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb, heroes such as Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, and tragic figures such as Pete Rose and Lou Gehrig--the men who, despite a rocky and often hypocritical history, constructed baseball's tradition and preserved its invincibility. --Dave McCoy |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Entertaining look at the national past time, Still brings out the baseball fan in me |
| After his sucess with "the Civil War", Ken burns sought to make another masterpiece, another epic series, which was captured here in the film Baseball. This was a very long series, 18 hours total. What can I say, it doen't miss much. Starting at the beginning until 1992, just prior to the player's strike of 1994. An awesome look at old player, ballparks, and the development of the League in general. It was long to watch, and I know the Segregation issue was tough in baseball, but dang they spent a long time driving that point home stretching it over about 3 tapes. I wish one episode would have concentrated on it more, history, timeline,players and teams, but I guess that's difficult with the series being set up by decades. I would like to have seen it not skip over 1970-1993, it skipped over many of the scandals (pittsburg pirates 80's drug scandal, Pete rose was a blurp,) and unfortunately the series was before the whole strike fiasco and now some good years since. One big complaint, why is Shelby Foote in this series at all....he's the civil war buff that annoyed me the first time round. Anyhow, an entertaining series, just long, but a good job overall. | |
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