About the Series: Baseball and the new Tenth Inning

Baseball - the nine-part documentary series and Emmy® Award-winning documentary of America's national pastime. Join Ken Burns for the classic stories from the Great Depression through the 1950s, from Joe DiMaggio and Satchel Paige to Ted Williams and Jackie Robinson, to Willie Mays and Don Larsen. The series debuted in 1994 and was seen by more than 43 million viewers, making it the most-watched program in PBS history.

The original series leads up to the September 2010 premiere of Burns and co-director Lynn Novick's The Tenth Inning, a new two-part, four-hour documentary series that tells the tumultuous story of the national pastime from the 1990s to the present day. The film highlights dramatic developments that transformed the game: the crippling 1994 strike that left many fans disillusioned with their heroes; the increasing dominance of Latino and Asian players who turned baseball into a truly international game; baseball's skyrocketing profits, thanks to new stadiums, interleague play, and the wild card; the rise of a new Yankee Dynasty; the Red Sox' historic World Series victory; the astonishing feats of Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds; and the revelations about performance-enhancing drugs that cast a shadow on many of the era's greatest stars and their accomplishments.