Editorial Product Review: essential video:After the national success of his 11-hour epic, The Civil War--the highest-rated miniseries in public-television history--many wondered if Ken Burns could capture the same energy and passion with smaller subjects. His reply, the 18-hour history of America's greatest sport, Baseball, not only quieted these worries, it also perhaps surpassed his prior achievement. Massive in scope (it covers more than 100 years), exhausting in detail, and filled with celebrities, journalists, politicians, historians, and the men who played the game, Burns's romantic love letter ...
Editorial Product Review: :Set against a backdrop of the Baltimore Orioles' historic trip to play baseball in Cuba in the spring of 1999, this lively documentary provides an eye-opening look at baseball's grand tradition in that country. The history of Cuban baseball stretches back to the mid-1800s, and as some Cubans interviewed in a barbershop proudly boast, a form of baseball was being played in Cuba before Europeans even reached the New World. For many years, Cuban and American baseball proceeded on parallel tracks, with a number ...
Editorial Product Review: :Set against a backdrop of the Baltimore Orioles' historic trip to play baseball in Cuba in the spring of 1999, this lively documentary provides an eye-opening look at baseball's grand tradition in that country. The history of Cuban baseball stretches back to the mid-1800s, and as some Cubans interviewed in a barbershop proudly boast, a form of baseball was being played in Cuba before Europeans even reached the New World. For many years, Cuban and American baseball proceeded on parallel tracks, with a number ...
Editorial Product Review: :Set against a backdrop of the Baltimore Orioles' historic trip to play baseball in Cuba in the spring of 1999, this lively documentary provides an eye-opening look at baseball's grand tradition in that country. The history of Cuban baseball stretches back to the mid-1800s, and as some Cubans interviewed in a barbershop proudly boast, a form of baseball was being played in Cuba before Europeans even reached the New World. For many years, Cuban and American baseball proceeded on parallel tracks, with a number ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Includes the Rumble in the Jungle '74: Ali vs. Foreman, the Thrilla in Manila '75: Ali vs. Frazier III and I Shook Up the World '64: Clay vs. Liston.
Editorial Product Review: essential video:Decades ago, documentary filmmaker Leon Gast attempted to complete a feature about the 1974 'Rumble in the Jungle' championship bout between boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire. Sundry complications, though, held up the project until its release in 1996. It was well worth the delay. From Gast's perspective of modern history, the six weeks Ali and Foreman were forced to spend waiting in Africa for their fight to take place now looks like an important moment in America's cultural ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Vroom! Forty years after the last Indian Chief motorcycle was made, Indian enthusiasts are keeping the legend alive and the engines on their old bikes revving. Hear their stories and learn the history of the Indian Motorcycle Company: from its phenomenal worldwide success to the rivalry with Harley Davidson to its unexpected failure after World War II.
Editorial Product Review: :In 1994 the National Football League celebrated its 75th birthday. Narrated by John Mahoney, 75 Seasons tells the story of professional football in America from 1920 to 1994. The story starts with an interview with Alda Browser of the Canton Bulldogs, the only surviving player from the first professional team. We learn that the pro game lived for years in the shadow of the amateur university contests, and we witness the effect of society upon the game itself; as the men returned from World ...
Editorial Product Review: :In 1994 the National Football League celebrated its 75th birthday. Narrated by John Mahoney, 75 Seasons tells the story of professional football in America from 1920 to 1994. The story starts with an interview with Alda Browser of the Canton Bulldogs, the only surviving player from the first professional team. We learn that the pro game lived for years in the shadow of the amateur university contests, and we witness the effect of society upon the game itself; as the men returned from World ...
Editorial Product Review: :In 1994 the National Football League celebrated its 75th birthday. Narrated by John Mahoney, 75 Seasons tells the story of professional football in America from 1920 to 1994. The story starts with an interview with Alda Browser of the Canton Bulldogs, the only surviving player from the first professional team. We learn that the pro game lived for years in the shadow of the amateur university contests, and we witness the effect of society upon the game itself; as the men returned from World ...
Small and light enough for a shirt pocket, Samsung's Helix YX-M1 is a one-stop audio entertainment center with an XM radio, a digital music player, and room for 50 hours of tunes, but it comes up short on battery life.
