TV Alert: Ken Burns's "Baseball" Airs Tonight

by Ian Casselberry on Jan 6, 2009 5:00 PM EST in Detroit Tigers News

MLB Network earns some cool points with BYB by re-broadcasting Ken Burns's "Baseball" series, with the first episode airing tonight at 8 p.m. EST. The documentary was broken up into nine episodes (or innings), and one will run each week.

"Baseball" was originally shown on PBS in 1994. (Has it really been that long? Keith Olbermann - who wasn't much of a fan - was doing sports back then.) I remember watching it at the time, though it hasn't stayed in my memory very well. And I've always wanted to buy the DVD set, so I'm pretty excited about this. (I also really enjoyed Burns's "Jazz.")

Here's an interview Burns did with MLB Network's Harold Reynolds and Victor Rojas. (If I could embed it here, I would.)
Here's the "Baseball" site at PBS.
And here's a dissenting view of the documentary.

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Just keep rubbing it in.....

Not only is my Comcast not “allowing” me “access” to see it, now my modem has taken a shat. ERRRR Luckily I can forage from “420 on the river”, but not ideal…….

by Zappatista on Jan 6, 2009 6:08 PM EST reply actions

It’s something I’ve always wanted to see…so of course I work Tuesday nights.

Burns was on Hot Stove last night saying that he’s going to be doing in update to add on to the documentary and that it’ll show on MLB Network when he’s done.

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by Rogo on Jan 6, 2009 7:44 PM EST reply actions

I have a big issue with "Baseball"

It’s Ken Burn’s massive East Coast bias. If you didn’t know anything about the game, you’d think it was only played in NY and Boston, and not in the fly over states.

Burn’s ignoring the 1968 Tigers, who literally kept a racially divided city from erupting in flames, yet heavily covering the 1967 Red Sox pennant and the Miracle Mets World Series win in 1969, said it all.

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by BigAl on Jan 6, 2009 7:53 PM EST reply actions

well, then, I’m glad I can’t watch it cause the ’68 Tigers were the best!

by densogirl on Jan 6, 2009 8:57 PM EST up reply actions

Love It

I just got done Netflixing the whole thing. I don’t see what’s not to like about it, although there isn’t much on the Tigers. It’s tough to cram 120 years of history in 18 hours of video. While the 84 and 68 Tigers were ignored, there is some good stuff on Cobb and Greenberg.

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by spotstarters on Jan 6, 2009 11:05 PM EST reply actions