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MLB's 20 Greatest Games is an American television series that aired in 2011 on MLB Network.Hosted by Bob Costas [1] and Tom Verducci, [2] the series counted down and dissected the 20 greatest games in Major League Baseball history since 1961. [3]
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 ...
Each episode takes a look at a season in the history of Major League Baseball. The series is narrated by Curt Chaplin. Like a lot of the network's other original programming, Baseball's Seasons airs when the league is in offseason. The series is currently available for streaming online on the streaming services Apple TV+ and Pluto TV. [2] [3]
The premiere episode on January 1, 2009, was a kinescope of NBC's coverage of Game 5 of the 1956 World Series in which Don Larsen hurled the Fall Classic's only perfect game. The game included all original Gillette advertisements from the NBC coverage, and was framed by a sit-down interview by Bob Costas with Larsen and his catcher, Yogi Berra .
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 ...
On October 1–2, 2024, ABC aired Games 1 and 2 of the American League Wild Card Series between the Detroit Tigers and Houston Astros. The games on ABC were again produced by ESPN, and during the 4th inning of Game 1 from Houston, the graphics department displayed incorrect stats [337] during the players' at-bats. During the top of the 8th ...
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.
1–2 Oakland Athletics: Game where Oakland Athletics fans protested the team's relocation to Las Vegas by getting as many fans to attend the game as possible in order to demonstrate that there was still a sizable market for Major League Baseball in Oakland. [44] [45] Loss No. 121 / Loss #121: September 28, 2024 Chicago White Sox: 1–4 Detroit ...