Episode Detail: Something Like a War - Baseball

Second inning (1900-1910): The start of Ban Johnson's American League; the first World Series; the “Merkle boner”; the first leagues for women and blacks; profiles Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson.
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Premiered: 1994, on PBS
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Premise: This stirring history of the sport first aired, conveniently, during a baseball strike, and it was the perfect antidote to the first World Series-less year since 1904. The miniseries, like many from Ken Burns, made deft use of still photos, interviews and archival footage to give the past a wonderfully nostalgic air of years truly gone by, and it effectively documented racism's toll on the national pastime in the first half of the 20th century.

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