Baseball Documentary

[ErikV]

For those who enjoyed Ken Burns original documentay: Baseball,
PBS will air a two-part follow up documentary starting tonite.
Entitled The Tenth Inning. Here's a quick review:

http://www.pbs.org/baseball-the-tenth-inning/

The preview of the show covered all the bases of the game that has
changed so radically between 1992, where the original Baseball left off,
up until today. The strike. The resurgence. The globalization of the
game. And of course, the dark cloud, performance enhancing drugs.
The Tenth Inning is a seamless transition from the original Baseball. It
manages to carry all the nostalgia from the original series while it launches
a foray into the sport’s dark side. No matter how you feel about the issues
that have clouded the last twenty years of the game, The Tenth Inning will
present you with a fresh perspective from a number of angles.

[tbob]

I am looking forward to this. I know it can't possibly surpass the original 9 innings, but this 10th inning should be very good and well done based on ken Burns' past history of great documentaries like The Civil War, Baseball and others. It's on PBS by the way.

[triwak]

Thanks for the heads-up! Been looking forward to this.

[hunterdutchess]

Thanks alot!! I hope it is as good as the first nine even though they already had extra innings, so should this be the 11th inning or another game?

[tbob]

I thought 10th Inning Part 1 was good and look forward to the 2nd Part tomorrow. I realize that steroids was a huge issue in the 90's and in to the 21st century but to have almost 3/4 of the first show devoted to Sammy, Mark and Barry was a little overkill when so many other things happened in the 90's. Of course Joe Torre and the Yankees and the Braves had long features. Not a word about the Twins '91 series (there wasn't a mention of the '87 Series in the last episode either) which was disappointing as that was such a great series (and I am a Twins fan). There was a little bit on Ken Griffey Jr. and a nice segment on the strike and Ripken. Donald Fehr was trashed (he deserved it) and so were the owners (they deserved it too) but Selig has emerged unscathed so far (disappointing).

[Anthony S.]

Donald Fehr still looks like he chugs a bottle of ipecac moments before every TV interview. I haven't missed that dour visage.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by tbob

I thought 10th Inning Part 1 was good and look forward to the 2nd Part tomorrow. I realize that steroids was a huge issue in the 90's and in to the 21st century but to have almost 3/4 of the first show devoted to Sammy, Mark and Barry was a little overkill when so many other things happened in the 90's. Of course Joe Torre and the Yankees and the Braves had long features. Not a word about the Twins '91 series (there wasn't a mention of the '87 Series in the last episode either) which was disappointing as that was such a great series (and I am a Twins fan). There was a little bit on Ken Griffey Jr. and a nice segment on the strike and Ripken. Donald Fehr was trashed (he deserved it) and so were the owners (they deserved it too) but Selig has emerged unscathed so far (disappointing).

I don't know what's coming tonight, but the strike and the steroids were the most dramatic and traumatic events of the last 2 decades. I think they needed to be explored. I suspect that part 2 will present some brighter spots, such as the growing popularity of the game around the world, the Red Sox revival, and the new talent. But then Burns still has more to present about the Barry saga and the Congressional hearings in part 2.