Baseball
1994PBSDocumentary
Ken Burns on the game as American history, in nine innings rather than nine episodes.
One opening sequence is catalogued for Baseball, covering season 1.
It arrived on PBS in 1994, when Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Reading Rainbow and Barney & Friends were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
No usable clip kept. The uploads labelled as the opening are the presenter's monologue and a videotape's front matter.
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