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It's a good series, but I remember it being way too focused on race. I tuned into the one of the parts dealing with 19th century baseball and saw a lot of things about how blacks were excluded from major league baseball, long segments on Fleetwood Walker, but hardly a passing mention of most of the great major leaguers of the time. I was looking forward to his take on the great Orioles teams of the time, maybe the great 1897 pennant race, tidbits from the career of Amos Rusie or John Clarkson, but instead I get a diatribe on Jim Crow. I agree that minorities got the very short end of the stick in a lot of areas back then, but Burns sold this as a history of baseball, not race relations as viewed through baseball.
Maybe I'm overstating the point, but that's what I remember.
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