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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 ...
Starting in 2007, after consulting the MLBPA, MLB has decided to allow the team with the best record in the league that wins the All-Star Game to choose whether to use the seven-day schedule (1-2-off-3-4-off-5) or the eight-day schedule (1-off-2-off-3-4-off-5). The team only gets to choose the schedule; the opponent is still determined by win ...
The Astros made history at the expense of the Rangers on June 15, 2022, when Luis Garcia and Phil Maton each pitched an immaculate inning for the Astros at Globe Life Field. It was the first instance in major league history of two immaculate innings being thrown on the same date and in the same game.
The book recounts the history of baseball through anecdotes about iconic pitches and interviews with pitchers such as Hall of Famers Steve Carlton, Bob Gibson and Nolan Ryan, as well as pitchers like Jamie Moyer and J.R. Richard. It also describes the mechanics of pitching, and its centrality to the game of baseball. [1]
Scully was on hand for several key moments in baseball history: Fred Lynn hitting the first grand slam in All-Star Game history (1983); the 1984 Detroit Tigers winning the World Series (along the way, Scully called Tigers pitcher Jack Morris' no-hitter against the Chicago White Sox on April 7); Ozzie Smith's game-winning home run in Game 5 of ...
The site has season, career, and minor league records (when available, back to 1888) for everyone who has played Major League Baseball, year-by-year team pages, all final league standings, all postseason numbers, voting results for all historic awards such as the Cy Young Award and MVP, head-to-head batter vs. pitcher career totals, individual statistical leaders for each season and all-time ...
1994–95 Major League Baseball strike: 1995: Cleveland Indians: Atlanta Braves: Atlanta Braves 1996: New York Yankees: New York Yankees 1997: Cleveland Indians: Florida Marlins: Florida Marlins 1998: New York Yankees: San Diego Padres: New York Yankees 1999: Atlanta Braves: New York Yankees
Jackie Robinson is a 2016 American television documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns.It debuted as a two-part series, the first half premiering on April 11, 2016, and the second half airing the following night.