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Baseball
Ken Burns’ masterful, comprehensive biography of baseball.
It busts many of the myths of baseball’s origins and weaves
its growth into the very genesis of the modern American lifestyle.
As with any Burns production, you get the big picture
illuminated with lovely tiny details. At 10 DVD discs, it’s way
longer than 9 innings. Like some games, it can go on and on,
and the later history of the Yankees is not as universally appreciated.
But you don’t know baseball – or America – until
you’ve seen this.
By Ken Burns
1994, 1140 min.
Available from Amazon
Rent from Netflix
An early diamond (below left)
with similarities to cricket. In
silhouette (below) Amish and
Menonite boys play an alternative
form of base ball.
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