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Title: Ken Burns Baseball
Post by: Cire on July 19, 2010, 11:09:31 PM

PBS is replaying it on Wednesdays (I think)  really good.  Anyone else watching/seen already?

Title: Re: Ken Burns Baseball
Post by: nicname on July 19, 2010, 11:14:30 PM

I bought the entire set for my Dad one year on christmas.  Very good program.  Baseball fans are natural nostalgics.

Title: Re: Ken Burns Baseball
Post by: Cire on July 19, 2010, 11:18:24 PM

LOVE IT.  I missed the first 2 or 3 :(

Title: Re: Ken Burns Baseball
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on July 19, 2010, 11:19:30 PM

I've caught parts of it recently.  I think I still have it on some very degraded tapes somewhere from the first time it was on.  Not as good as Civil War (nothing else even close), but still pretty damn good.  IIRC, Stan Musial was not mentioned in the series, which was odd.  This is where Buck O'Neil really became a national name, bringing his stories that those of us blessed enough to have grown up in the KC region had heard for years to the rest of the country.  Without that film, there would have not been a "lifetime achievement award" named after Buck in the HOF.