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The National Pastime: 1940-1950
(Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns series)
VHS
151 minutes
GV863 .A1 B3751 1994 v.6
The Second World War causes turmoil in baseball as its best players enlist. But in 1941, before the war began, baseball had a summer better than anyone could remember. Ted Williams and "Joltin' Joe" DiMaggio bat the lights out while the Brooklyn Dodgers win their first pennant in 20 years. But baseball's most poignant moment arrives when the Dodgers' Branch Rickey forces integration by signing the immortal Jackie Robinson. With heroic dignity, he changes the game forever. Baseball became, in truth, what it had always claimed to be... "The National Pastime."
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