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Title: Baseball : An Illustrated History by Ken Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward ISBN: 0-679-76541-7 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 13 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.02 (88 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Baseball in New York
Comment: While I am a big fan of Ken Burns's documentaries, "Baseball" was my biggest disappointment. Of all the subjects he has chosen, baseball was the one I knew the most about before I watched the film. Burns did a great job of describing baseball in New York before 1970--the Yankees, Dodgers, Giants and Mets. Every key player from those teams is showcased, and the World Series involving them is treated as if baseball was never better. Maybe that's true. I enjoyed the archival film, photographs and narrative concerning those events. Classic Burns quality.
But baseball's history is not limited to New York. For example, the Philadelphia Phillies played the Cincinnati Reds in the first major league game in 1883. The Phillies have 117 years of major league history. Ken Burns limits his discussion of the Phillies to a total of two topics: a brief biography of Grover Cleveland Alexander(who pitched against the Yankees in the 1915 World Series) and the Phillies players' racist taunts of Jackie Robinson of the Dodgers. That's it for 117 years of Phillies history--nothing about the 1950 Whiz kids, Mike Schmidt (greatest third baseman ever, 3 time MVP, over 500 home runs), the sole World Championship in 1980 (after 97 years of futility and the best league championship series ever), Steve Carlton (3 Cy Young awards), the infamous 1964 collapse(6 game lead blown in last 12 games of the season with a 10 game losing streak), Jim Bunning, Shibe Park/Connie Mack stadium, Chuck Klein, more losses than any team in any professional sport ever, Robin Roberts, Larry Bowa (highest fielding percentage of any shortstop ever), Richie Ashburn or Pete Rose (most hits ever). Burns had his blinders on, wanting only to tell the story of baseball in New York. While he did a good job, anyone who is a fan of a team from virtually any city other than New York will sit through 18 hours and feel utterly shortchanged. The remedy is to provide truth in advertising: change the title of the documentary to "Baseball in New York".
Rating: 5
Summary: A DVD All Baseball Fans Should Own
Comment: Ken Burns did his usual outstanding job with this documentary. He tells the story of baseball, using a combination of still photos, videos, interviews and quotes quotes. The DVD includes a bonus disc, which includes several great interviews.
He hits all aspects of the game: The development of the game itself and the leagues, the labor history, the stars and great teams and personalities, the great moments in the history of the game, and so on. He also gives us a pretty good look at the old Negro leagues and we get to hear some of the great stories from those days before MLB was integrated.
The only bad thing I can say about this collection of dvds is that by the time it was over I was really sick of hearing different versions of "Take Me out to the Ballgame."
The great stories in this collection more than make up for that one drawback, however. He does more than just interview and quote the players, managers, umpires, owners and sports writers. He includes stories from fans. Doris Kearns Goodwin told about how she grew up rooting for the Brooklyn Dodgers, then after they moved away, she found herself in Boston, becoming a Red Sox fan, just in time to have her heart broken again.
All fans of baseball should see this collection.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Story, But Too Narrow in Focus
Comment: A great history of baseball. The one flaw: watching only the film, you would think that only New York and Boston had baseball teams.
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