Ken Burns Baseball - "Extra Innings"

[$heriff Tom]

So Ken Burns is working on an addendum of sorts to his highly regarded BASEBALL series. Entitled "Extra Innings" it will premiere this Fall. Its 4 hours, picking up the years marred by "a strike, stats tainted by performance-enhancing drugs, escalating salaries and ticket prices."

Fun fun!

You know, I hardly saw the original doc. But man, Ive read dozens of baseball books, seen all kinds of archived footage, sought out some random footage, like the whole set of 1968 Tigers World Series victory on burned DVDs.

Im sure there will be lots of Yankee victory footage as well, and there is a segment on "obsessed fans" - eh, why was I not called?

[MSBNYY]

I read somewhere Burns' desire to do this was fueled by a need to honor the 2004 Red Sox. Of course, that makes me ill.

[IronHorse4]

Ken Burns' original "Baseball," while very entertaining and awesome to watch with old clips and interviews, had quite a few factual inaccuracies. Seems he used some license throughout his series. I remember Keith Olbermann (who, as much of a dick as he can be, knows more about pbscure baseball history than anyone I know of who didn't necessarily live all of it) picking apart the documentary tearing a lot of holes in the stories told.

That said, the majority of it is probably accurate. This will be interesting, because the stuff in "Extra Innings" will be things that will be a lot easier to check, or, in most cases, remember.