Baseball
Baseball Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | ||
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| S1 | 8.6 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 9.0 | 8.6 | 9.0 | 8.8 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 8.4 |
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"America's whole history told through one game"
This sweeping documentary from Ken Burns traces the history of baseball from its 19th-century origins to the modern era, using the sport as a lens for the larger story of America itself: race, immigration, war, labor, and popular culture. Told through archival photographs, old newsreels, first-person letters, and reflective interviews with historians and former players, it moves at a slow, meditative pace. It feels less like sports coverage and more like a long, contemplative history lesson, carried by evocative imagery and quietly stirring narration rather than action or drama.
the way baseball becomes a lens for a century of American social change.
you find slow, photo-heavy narration and lengthy historical asides tedious.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
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| ▶ | 1 | Our Game | 8.6 | 287 | 112 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Something Like a War | 8.7 | 239 | 103 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | The Faith of Fifty Million People | 8.7 | 209 | 117 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | A National Heirloom | 9.0 | 202 | 114 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | Shadow Ball | 8.6 | 196 | 122 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | The National Pastime | 9.0 | 196 | 148 min | |
| ▶ | 7 | The Capital of Baseball | 8.8 | 182 | 132 min | |
| ▶ | 8 | A Whole New Ballgame | 8.5 | 174 | 114 min | |
| ▶ | 9 | Home | 8.4 | 175 | 146 min | |
| ▶ | 10 | The Tenth Inning: Top of the Tenth | 8.3 | 229 | 118 min | |
| ▶ | 11 | The Tenth Inning: Bottom of the Tenth | 8.4 | 180 | 125 min |