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BASEBALL (PBS)
SUBJECTS
--- Baseball; U.S./All periods 1840 to present; Diversity;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING --- Sportsmanship;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS --- Fairness.
Age: 10+; Not Rated; Documentary; 1994, 9 volumes; Color.
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Ken Burns' nine part documentary Baseball examines the players, the games, and the baseball business. It also provides revealing insights into U.S. social history by showing how the development of baseball followed, and in some cases led, changes in U.S. society as a whole.
Baseball is an excellent way
to introduce sports fanatics to U.S. history. Changes in society and in baseball
examined by this series include: racial integration; the widening
disparity between the lives of common people and the lives of
celebrities; the increasing freedom allowed to women; increased
violence; the immigration melting pot; labor/management
relations; and the advent of radio and television.
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To give you a sense of how our Learning Guides can be used by teachers as lesson plans and by parents to supplement school curriculum or for homeschooling, we have set out below one of the discussion questions from the Learning Guide to Baseball.
Why was baseball one of the first institutions in the United States to become racially integrated?
The series is divided into the following parts:
Inning 1. Our Game: the 1840's - 1900
Inning 2. Something Like War: 1900 - 1910
Inning 3. The Faith of Fifty Million People: 1910 - 1920
Inning 4. A National Heirloom: 1920 - 1930
Inning 5. The Shadow Ball: 1930 - 1940
Inning 6. The National Pastime: 1940 - 1950
Inning 7. The Capital of Baseball: 1950 - 1960
Inning 8. A Whole New Ball Game: 1960 - 1970
Inning 9. Home: 1970 - 1994.
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