'Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns' Episode Review: 'Inning 2: Something Like a War (1900-1910)'
Inning 2: Something Like a War (1900-1910) Written by: Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns Directed by: Ken Burns It is a decade of revolution. In China. In Central America. At Kitty Hawk. In Henry Ford's factory. And on America's baseball fields. In 1894, a sportswriter named Byron Bancroft "Ban" Johnson takes over a struggling minor league - the Western League - and turns it into a financial success. In 1900 he changes its name to the American League and begins talking about challenging the big city monopoly held by the National League. The revolution takes only three years. In 1903, the first World Series is played between the American League Boston Pilgrims and the National League Pittsburgh Pirates. - from the DVD episode guide blurb On September 19, 1994, the 300 or so member stations of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) presented Something Like a War (1900-1910), the second "inning" of Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns. Co-written