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Baseball - A Film By Ken Burns
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:23 pm
by throttle8
Does anyone own or have watched: Baseball - A Film By Ken Burns? (I never knew it existed until today!!!!!)
How does it compare to: When It Was A Game?
RE: Baseball - A Film By Ken Burns
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:31 pm
by LetsPlay2
Its great !!
I need to buy it !! I had it on "VCR Tape" but its worn out
RE: Baseball - A Film By Ken Burns
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:47 pm
by Nukester
I saw parts of it when it was on tv as a miniseries thing, and I loved it. Definitly something I want to pick up. Ive never seen When It Was A Game
RE: Baseball - A Film By Ken Burns
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:56 pm
by jeremy7227
When It Was A Game doesn't compare. Ken Burns' Baseball is the quintessential examination of baseball and American culture. It is 18 hours of thought provoking documentary. It was the inspiration for a class I took at UMass in the 90's called Baseball in Modern America. If you love baseball you will watch it over and over again.
RE: Baseball - A Film By Ken Burns
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:17 pm
by CBeasley37
Its fantastic throttle.
You will learn so much about the history of baseball.
I just finished watching it again a couple of weeks ago.
Swing by your local public library. Thats where I first found it.
If that branch doesnt have it, they can have it sent over from another branch.
RE: Baseball - A Film By Ken Burns
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:22 am
by CrashDavis
It is the greatest. My only dissapointment about a series like this, is that you cannot count on it being updated (I believe it was released in 1994 - so it is now 13 yrs old). And, secondly, I disliked the way they attempted to pack 2 decades into 1 CD (whereas the other CDs were each solely devoted to a single decade). Still I thought it well worth the price. Too bad it didn't cover the 'roid era tho.
SL