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Shadow Ball
Season 1
Episode 5
Throughout America, and even on the baseball diamonds in New York's Central Park, thousands of homeless people build shantytowns called "Hoovervilles." More than ever, America needs heroes. And even as it struggles to make it through the Depression, baseball provides them. Inning Five, Shadow Ball, tells the story of the Negro Leagues in the 1930s, excluded from major league play at that time.
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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 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.
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Inning One: Our Game looks at the origins of baseball in the 1840s and up to 1900.