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Baseball. The Faith of Fifty Million People
Title
Baseball. The Faith of Fifty Million People [videorecording] / Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.).
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2011], c1994.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (125 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
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Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on June 14, 2011.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Summary
Comparing sports with religion only goes so far, but in early-20th-century America, the reverence accorded baseball and its players resembled the trust and respect a priest might elicit from his parishioners. This program examines the life of the game between 1910 and 1920-the decade in which a godlike figure named Babe Ruth first appeared and the Black Sox scandal threatened, in the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, to destroy the faith of fifty million people. Also included: profiles of Grover Cleveland Alexander and other players, as well as archival footage of Fenway Park construction.
Variant and related titles
Faith of Fifty Million People
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Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 15, 2024
Series
Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns
Audience
6 & up.
Contents
Introduction to: The Faith of Fifty Million People (0:55)
Star Spangled Banner (1:19)
Introduction to: The Faith of Fifty Million People (2:29)
Baseball's Personal Feel (2:07)
Baseball's Hard Men (1:35)
Third Inning - Connie Mack (4:46)
Third Inning - The Black Mark (5:28)
Damn (3:57)
The Wolf Pack - Harry Hooper's Journal (2:08)
The Wolf Pack - The Good and The Bad (4:16)
The Wolf Pack - Player's Rights (2:38)
Tears - 1912 World Series (4:43)
Tears - Giants Lose Series to Boston (4:57)
Tears - Regrets (3:57)
Tears - Fenway Park (2:06)
Pigtown (4:50)
Bottom of the Third (2:07)
Free Agents - Federal League (4:30)
Free Agents - Everyman's Game (5:06)
Hard to Know Alexander & Claxton (4:18)
Hard to Know - Branch Rickey (2:37)
The Carmine Hosed Warriors (2:41)
The Carmine Hosed Warriors - 1917 - 1919 (6:23)
An Awful Thing to Do (9:47)
An Awful Thing to Do - Game by Game (9:45)
An Awful Thing to Do - Aftermath (8:19)
The Law (6:45)
Credits: The Faith of Fifty Million People (2:47)
Videorecording number
43635s Infobase
43725 Infobase
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