Episode Detail: A Whole New Ballgame - Baseball

Eighth inning (1960-70). Bill Mazeroski's 1960 Series-winning home run; Roger Maris's 61 homers in '61; Bob Gibson, Carl Yastrzemski, Stan Musial and Sandy Koufax; football's growing popularity; Marvin Miller and the players' union; Curt Flood and the reserve clause. John Chancellor narrates.
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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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