''Baseball's Golden Age'' is a television program that chronicles the history of

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focusing mainly on the 1920s through the 1960s, the " golden age of baseball". It is broadcast on

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Sunday nights at 8 p.m. and is produced by Flagstaff Films. Thirteen 30-minute episodes have been produced. The show has featured material on the effect of World War II on baseball, teams winning the pennant after years of losing, and pieces on individual players, both well known and not so well known. The show also contains never-before-seen footage provided fans, players, and players' families. The first episode featured a segment on "the sights and sounds of the game" which included

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s and

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and the cracking sound of the bat. It also focused on the rivalry between the three

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teams of the time, the

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, and

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, and a comparison of

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and

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. The series is narrated by

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. It is produced by Flagstaff Films, headed by Steven Stern, who is a founding partner in Black Canyon Productions, won multiple Peabody and Emmy Awards for such television achievements as the graceful baseball trilogy "When It Was a Game" and the eye-opening look at the dramatic gloved-fist demonstration at the 1968 Olympics, "Fists of Freedom." The footage for the series comes from Flagstaff Films library, arguably the most impressive private collection of baseball film in the U.S The series is available from Baseball Direct in a special 3-DVD Collection.

Episode list

External links

FSN Revisits "Baseball's Golden Age"
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