Ken Burns' Baseball goes into extra innings

What inaccuracies?

 

I suspect the Tenth Inning is going to be fairly Red Sox heavy.

 

Home ended in 1994 right before the player's strike and the 1994 World Series not being played and will include this season.

From 1994 on, I would guess the subjects would be...

1. The strike and the calling off of the 1994 Series
2. Greg Maddux and the Braves
3. Jeter and the Yankees
4. Steroids
5. Ripken's Streak
6. The Salary Boom - A-Rod and Manny
7. Small market teams winning and losing
8. The Red Sox
9. Chicago and Philly win
10. The future is overseas - Latin and Asian players

 

Oh, goody-goody.

Maybe we can have more ambrosia-drinking experts talk about the Red Sox and Yankees, with ancient friezes depicting the Peloponnesian War. That made for great TV the first time around.

 

What?

Yeah, Roger Angell describing the way Yaz held the bat was awful.

 

Fixed, but room to fix again

 

Please.

That shit was a wankfest almost from beginning to end. As bubbler said, Aaron was mentioned a few times in passing. Musial was given the same treatment.

This is America's game, not a private party between the Red Sox and the Yankees.

 

The Man and The Hammer each had a chapter. It might have been in a different inning than the one you saw.

 

8a. Red Sox fans actually surpassing Yankee fans for sheer toxicity.

 

My guess it's going to be about:

1) The 1994 strike;
2) Baseball and the media (Clemens, Rocker, Johnson, etc.)
3) The "contraction" issue (Minnesota, Tampa, Pittsburgh, Florida)
4) The Subway Series
5) Sosa and McGwire
6) Cal Ripken
7) Sept. 11th and New York
8) The Mitchell Report
9) Barry Bonds
10) The Red Sox win two World Series

All this being said, Roger Clemens is going to be a seminal figure in this episode. John Chancellor is dead, so I guess Danny Glover will fill in. I hope Burns was able to get some Halberstam footage before he died. Same with Harry Caray.

I'm sure Burns is also going to have plenty of footage of Old Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium coming down, and New Yankee Stadium and Citi Field going up.

 

If you say they did, I take your word for it.

What I recall of the documentary, other than overdosing on people like Will and Kearns Goodwin, and elites/aesthetes out the ass, is a blatant disregard of whatever dared to happen outside the northeast corridor. If I still had it I'd watch to see if it has improved with time (and my own age); as it stands, I taped over the ones my mother made for me.

 

I have never seen any part of this series and I am a big, big baseball fan who loves reading about the 50s and 60s era of the sport. I'm ashamed of myself. Add this to my "popular movies you haven't seen" thread.