Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | Shadow ball
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Other authors / contributors: | Burns, Ken, 1953- director, producer, screenwriter.
Novick, Lynn, producer.
Chancellor, John, 1927-1996, narrator.
Ward, Geoffrey C., screenwriter.
Florentine Films, production company.
WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.), production company.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), publisher.
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Digital file characteristics: | video file
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Notes: | Title from resource description page (viewed January 18, 2021). Originally broadcast in 1994. Cinematography, Buddy Squires, Ken Burns, Allen Moore ; music, Jacqueline Schawb and others ; editors, Paul Barnes, Yaffa Lerea, Tricia Reidy, Michael Levine, Rick Desgres. Narrator, John Chancellor ; voices, Adam Arkin and others. In English.
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Summary: | As America struggles to make it through the Depression, baseball provides them heroes. But the heroes do not come only from the Major Leagues. The Negro Leagues bring baseball to towns the Major Leagues ignore.
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Awards: | Emmy Awards, 1995: Outstanding Informational Series (Ken Burns (producer/director/writer), Lynn Novick (producer), Geoffrey C. Ward (writer), John Chancellor (narrator))
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