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Baseball is a 1994 American television documentary miniseries created by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns about the history of the sport of baseball. First broadcast on PBS, this was Burns' ninth documentary and won the 1995 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series. [1] It was funded in part by the National Endowment for the ...
Game 4 of the 1929 World Series: Famous for an Athletics rally from 8–0 that included a three-run inside-the-park home run, being the last inside-the-park home run in a World Series game until Game 1 of the 2015 World Series and helping to make the largest deficit overcome in postseason history. [4] [5] Tri-Cornered Baseball Game: June 26, 1944
Baseball's Seasons is an American television documentary series that was aired on MLB Network from January 7, 2009 until December 30, 2013. [1] Each episode takes a look at a season in the history of Major League Baseball .
In 2004, Forman founded Sports Reference. Sports Reference is a website that came out of the Baseball Reference website. The company was incorporated as Sports Reference, LLC in 2007. [3] In 2006, Forman left his job as a math professor at Saint Joseph's University in order to focus on Baseball Reference full-time. [2] [1] [4]
Baseball's Golden Age is a television program that chronicles the history of baseball focusing mainly on the 1920s through the 1960s, the "golden age of baseball". It is broadcast on Fox Sports Net Sunday nights at 8 p.m. and is produced by Flagstaff Films. Thirteen 30-minute episodes have been produced.
The Franchise is an American reality-documentary television show that debuted on July 13, 2011, on the Showtime television network.The series follows Major League Baseball (MLB) teams before and during the baseball season.
It serves, in turn, as a source for a number of books and publications about baseball, and/or is mentioned by them as a reference, such as Baseball Digest, [7] Understanding Sabermetrics: An Introduction to the Science of Baseball Statistics, [8] and Baseball's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Records. [5]
References to baseball date back to the 1700s when in England it was referenced in 1744 in the children's book A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by John Newberry, though he was actually referring to the game "rounders". In the early 1800s "baseball" and a game first mentioned in 1828 as the aforementioned "rounders" may have been the same or very ...