In Inning 1, Our Game, the origins of baseball are discussed. On June 19, 1846, at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey, a team of well-dressed gentlemen, the KNickerbockers, play the first game of baseball. By 1856, the game is already being called " the national past time," or simply "Our Game. But the nation is about to be torn apart. And in the midst of the Civil War, there is one thing that Americans North and South have in common: baseball. John Chancellor narrates this series of films produced by Ken Burns. (2010, NR, 115 min.)
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