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Baseball
Our Game
Season 1
Episode 1
In New York City, in the 1840s, people need a diversion from the "railroad pace" at which they work and live. They find it in a game of questionable origins. Inning One, Our Game, looks at the origins of baseball in the 1840s and takes the story up to 1900. Burns refutes the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown and traces its roots instead to the earliest days of the nation.
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Inning Nine, Home, looks at baseball from the 1970s to the 1990s.
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Inning Eight, A Whole New Ball Game, moves the field to the 1960s
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Inning Seven, The Capital of Baseball, takes viewers through the 1950s.
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Inning Six, The National Pastime, covers the 1940s.
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Inning Five, Shadow Ball, tells the story of the Negro Leagues in the 1930s.
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Inning Four, A National Heirloom, concentrates on Babe Ruth.
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Inning Three, The Faith of Fifty Million People, examines the century's second decade.
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Inning Two, Something Like a War, takes viewers through 1910.