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Ken Burns: Baseball (1994)
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Inning 1: Our Game: 1840s-1900 - On June 19, 1846, at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey, a team of well-dressed gentlemen, the Knickerbockers, play the first game of baseball.By 1856, the game is already being called "the national pastime," or simply, "Our Game." Inning 2: Something Like A War: 1900-1910 - In 1894, a sportswriter named Byron Bancroft "Ban" Johnson takes over a struggling minor league -- the Western League -- and turns it into a financial success.In 1900, he changes its name to the American League and begins talking about challenging the big city monopoly held by the National League.The revolution takes only three years.In 1903, the first World Series is played between the American League Boston Pilgrims and the National League Pi | | |