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Joe DiMaggio’s incredible hitting streak; baseball during World War II; Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Part 6 of 9.
The sixth "inning" of Ken Burns's landmark 1994 film BASEBALL leads
off with the baseball season of 1941, one of the most exciting of
all time. Joe DiMaggio hits in 56 straight games, the longest
hitting streak in history. Ted Williams becomes the last man to hit
.400. The Brooklyn Dodgers win their first pennant in 20 years.
Then the war intervenes and baseball's best players become
soldiers. On their return, the game - and the entire country - are
changed forever: Branch Rickey integrates baseball on April 15,
1947, when Jackie Robinson takes the field for the Brooklyn
Dodgers. Baseball finally becomes what it had always claimed to be:
America's national pastime. 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 6 of 9.
