The heyday of New York City baseball; the “shot heard round the world”; Don Larsen’s perfect game; the Brooklyn Dodgers’ first World Series win and move to L.A. Part 7 of 9.

Jackie Robinson

In the seventh "inning" of Ken Burns's landmark 1994 film BASEBALL, rare newsreel film and interviews celebrate the glorious heyday of New York City baseball with some of its most memorable moments: the "shot heard round the world," Bobby Thomson's home run off Ralph Branca in 1951; Willie Mays' incredible catch in the 1954 World Series; and Don Larsen's perfect game. The highlight of the episode is 1955, when the Brooklyn Dodgers, sparked by Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella, finally win their first World Series, only to be moved by their owner to a new city 3,000 miles away: Los Angeles. This episode airs as part of the lead-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 takes BASEBALL from the 1990s up to the present and explores the sport's new Golden Age - an era of unprecedented home-run totals, popularity and prosperity - as well as some of baseball's darkest hours - the steroid era. Part 7 of 9.