Watching the Ken Burns baseball documentary

[fknhippie]

Just love the pre 60's stuff.

 

[wilwhite]

It's a beautiful documentary. Baseball used to mean so much more than it does now. Baseball in person is (was) great, and on the radio it's great.

It belongs to another time.

 

[fknhippie]

It's a beautiful documentary. Baseball used to mean so much more than it does now. Baseball in person is (was) great, and on the radio it's great.

It belongs to another time.

Sadly, you are correct.

I still love town baseball, takes you back.

 

[nynasty]

I think it was episode 5 "The Capital of Baseball"

About what NYC was like when it housed 3 MLB teams and more often than not 2 of them met in the world series.

Wish I could have been alive to experience that.

 

[Sir Robin Of Camelot]

Just love the pre 60's stuff.

Especially the first 2 or 3 “innings”… I can watch those episodes over and over and over...

 

[MTVike]

Ken Burns makes it, I watch it.

 

[Sir Robin Of Camelot]

Ken Burns makes it, I watch it.

Always feel like I learn pertinent things when I watch his stuff - no matter the subject.

 

[Cedrique]

The best part are all the quotes that they sprinkle throughout the series. Like "Cool Papa Bell was so fast, he could turn out the lights and be under the covers before the room got dark".

 

[PnkPanther]

Ken Burns makes it, I watch it.

He's not perfect, but he's pretty close

 

[TheGoodMan19]

I wish he had dealt with the minors a little bit. The Minors made baseball "America's Pasttime". The majors were confined to the northeast. Before expansion and franchise shifts, the Minors were baseball for most on the nation. The Seattle Rainiers, Louisville Colonels and New Orleans Pelicans meant more to those cities than the Yankees or Cubs. The old issues on The Sporting News had as much minors news as majors.

I did like his treatment of the 1919 World Series. And the chapter title "An Awful Thing to Do"