Series · Hollywood

Baseball

Using archival photographs, film footage, and testimony from people tied to the sport, this documentary traces baseball’s history in America across successive eras. Writers, historians, players, baseball personnel, and fans describe important events and consider what the game has meant within the country’s history. John Chancellor, Daniel Okrent, Buck O’Neil, and Studs Terkel are among the voices presenting a record shaped by those who played, studied, worked around, and followed baseball.