Christmas Day

[Kevin Finnerty]

You can call Ken Burns' BASEBALL a lot of things, including entertaining, and at some points, even informative, but it is most decidedly not the definitive baseball documentary. It's certainly the longest. And it certainly has more non-baseball people in it than any other documentary on baseball. Actually, if that is the best baseball documentary, then there is no definitive documentary of baseball.

Of those 18 looooonnng hours, just how much was devoted to the period from 1960-on? And just how much of that 18 hours was devoted to baseball played west of New York?

I hope a filmmaker who is a true baseball man, and not simply a documentary maker with a bunch of high-brow friends, puts together the definitive baseball documentary someday soon—filled with actual baseball people. It's long overdue.