Baseball is a game played between two teams of nine players each. The game is divided into nine innings, each divided into two halves. In the top half of the inning, the players of one team ...
If viewers are caught humming any tune after watching Ken Burns's Baseball, chances are that it will be "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." The 1908 vaudeville classic is heard in dozens of versions ...
To watch the fifth episode of Ken Burns' "Baseball" is to see exactly what makes the sport great as a metaphor for the ...
In 1909, a man named Charles Hercules Ebbets began secretly buying up adjacent parcels of land in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, including the site of a garbage dump called Pigtown because of ...
David McMahon has been making award-winning documentary films for more than a decade. With Ken Burns and Sarah Burns, he wrote, directed and produced The Central Park Five, a two-hour film about ...