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DVD

Baseball

Call Numbers

  • DVD 796.357 B2991 INNING 1 (CEN)
  • DVD 796.357 B2991 INNING 4 (CEN)
  • DVD 796.357 B2991 INNING 5 (CEN)
  • DVD 796.357 B2991 INNING 7 (CEN)
  • DVD 796.357 B2991 INNING 8 (CEN)
  • DVD 796.357 B2991 INNING 9 (CEN)
  • DVD 796.357 B2991 EXTRA INNING (CEN)

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Performers

Narrated by John Chancellor.

Publication Information

Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2000.

Physical Description

10 videodiscs (25+ hrs.) : sd., col. and b&w, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This documentary film presents a history of baseball which goes beyond the stolen bases and triple plays to how it influenced our lives from politics to race relations to labor to big business.

Notes

DVD format.

Videodisc release of the 1994 public television production.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Not rated.

DVD gold features: Player stats on over 100 virtual baseball cards ; 225 trivia questions ; timelines ; Charlie Rose interviews with Ken Burns, Bob Gibson, Yogi Berra, Bob Costas ; The making of "Baseball" ; team information.

Presented in a standard format which preserves the aspect ratio of its original television exhibition.

Contents

  • First inning. The 1840's-1900 "Our game"
  • Second inning. 1900-1910 "Something like a war"
  • Third inning. 1910-1920 "The faith of fifty million people"
  • Fourth inning. 1920-1930 "A national heirloom"
  • Fifth inning. 1930-1940 "Shadow ball"
  • Sixth inning. 1940-1950 "The national pastime
  • Seventh inning. 1950-1960 "The capital of baseball"
  • Eighth inning. 1960-1970 "A whole new ballgame"
  • Ninth inning. 1970-1994 "Home"
  • Extra inning.

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