{"id":1106,"date":"2010-09-28T07:24:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T12:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2010-09-28T07:24:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T12:24:44","slug":"the-tenth-inning-by-ken-burns-premieres-tonight-on-pbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1106","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Tenth Inning,&#8221; by Ken Burns Premieres Tonight on PBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highly anticipated <strong>&#8220;The Tenth Inning&#8221;<\/strong> is a two night, four hour documentary on baseball from the 1990s to the present day, by award-winning film-maker and historian <strong>Ken Burns<\/strong>.\u00a0 Burns, who wrote and directed PBS&#8217; Emmy Award Winning, &#8220;Baseball,&#8221; has structured his latest effort to continue where the latter left off.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/baseball-the-tenth-inning\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">PBS website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The film highlights dramatic developments that transformed the game: the crippling 1994 strike that left many fans disillusioned with their heroes; the increasing dominance of Latino and Asian players who turned baseball into a truly international game; baseball&#8217;s skyrocketing profits, thanks to new stadiums, interleague play, and the wild card; the rise of a new Yankee Dynasty; the Red Sox&#8217; historic World Series victory; the astonishing feats of Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds; and the revelations about performance-enhancing drugs that cast a shadow on many of the era&#8217;s greatest stars and their accomplishments.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The Tenth Inning&#8221; will air on Sept. 28-29; <em>8:00 &#8211; 10:00PM ET<\/em> on <strong>PBS<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highly anticipated &#8220;The Tenth Inning&#8221; is a two night, four hour documentary on baseball from the 1990s to the present day, by award-winning film-maker and historian Ken Burns.\u00a0 Burns, who wrote and directed PBS&#8217; Emmy Award Winning, &#8220;Baseball,&#8221; has structured his latest effort to continue where the latter left off. From the PBS website: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,16,13,14],"tags":[98,902,899,597,901,598,904,903,900,617],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}