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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 ]
Stearns was the first Major League Baseball player to die in a war. [1] He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic , which means he served in the American Civil War , even though he was only 12 years old at the end of the war; children are known to have served as drummers, messengers, etc.
This is a list of Major League Baseball (MLB) players to have accumulated a value of 50 or more career Wins Above Replacement (WAR) using the Baseball Reference calculation. [a] As of the conclusion of the 2024 Major League Baseball season, 320 players have reached a WAR value of 50.0 or higher, as detailed on this list.
There’s no shortage of great movies about baseball, but there is a severe lack of films about the Negro leagues. The fifth inning of Ken Burns’ expansive “Baseball” covers them with ...
Four Days in October is a baseball documentary produced by ESPN and MLB Productions.It is episode 18 in the first season of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. [1] [2]The film chronicles the last four games of the 2004 American League Championship Series (ALCS) between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees.
The two have become symbols of "baseball's sacrifice" in the war effort. As the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum proclaims: "Ballplayers, like every other American citizen, understand the importance of giving one's self for their country." [6] In 1980, O'Neill was inducted into Gettysburg College's Hall of Athletic Honor for baseball ...
2024 MLB Playoff Predictions: ... "The Padres went 8-5 against L.A. in the regular season and posted the game's best record after the All-Star break at 43-20 before steamrolling the Braves in the ...
The golden age of baseball, or sometimes the golden era, describes the period in Major League Baseball from the end of the dead-ball era until the modern era—roughly, from 1920 to sometime after World War II. [1] [2] The exact years are debated. MLB, for example, considers the golden age to have ended with World War II.