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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 ...
For the 2020 Major League Baseball season only, there was an expanded playoff format, owing to an abbreviated 60-game regular season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Eight teams qualified from the National League: the top two teams in each division plus the next two best records among the remaining teams.
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 ...
The series was the 48th in league history. The Dodgers beat the Cubs in five games to win the NL pennant for the first time in 29 years, their last one in 1988. This was the first time in history that the NLCS and ALCS teams were from the four most populous U.S. cities : New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston.
The 2017 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2017 postseason pitting the second-seeded Houston Astros against the fourth-seeded New York Yankees for the American League pennant and the right to face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2017 World Series. The Astros defeated the Yankees in seven ...
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
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MLB Now: The series premiered April 1, 2013, and new episodes air Monday thru Friday on MLB Network. Season one had Brian Kenny and Harold Reynolds debating about baseball's daily events and news with Reynolds taking the "traditional" perspective and Kenny using sabermetrics to approach each topic. The debate was moderated by Kristina Fitzpatrick.