Baseball – A Film By Ken Burns
The Baseball A Film by Ken Burns is a fast paced, action packed film no matter how many times you have seen it. Burns tells the story of America’s national sport from his own experiences and observations of the game. The characters are all Americans, from his own dad to his best friend, all living in the baseball hot spot that is New York. Everyone knows the game, or at least most everyone knows someone who plays the game, or knows someone who played the game and knows someone else who played the game. The baseball world is close knit and if you ever want to play the game you can find people willing to sell you some tickets, sometimes for a good price.
Burns takes all of us into his honest eyes and tries to show us the inner workings of what it takes to be a professional athlete, to play the game like a champion and to achieve success both personally and professionally. Baseball has been great material for a documentary since there have been professional baseball players; this is the closest that it has ever been to being a family film. Burns brings his viewers inside the world of professional baseball, something that most people never get a chance to experience. baseball is America’s favorite sport and with great success, the film baseball a film by Ken Burns will definitely bring back the magic that is baseball.
As the game of baseball continues to develop there are more young stars rising like Michael Jordan with every passing season. One day baseball will be the biggest sport in the United States and with its super star status, more people with an opportunity to play in the big leagues will take the plunge and try to turn pro. The film a film by Ken Burns gives us an inside look at the game, its people, the history and the future. Burns is a true American success story and his book will help generations to follow their dreams. I would recommend this film to anyone who ever wanted to learn about baseball, America’s favorite sport. It’s well worth the time spent and when you’re done, you’ll never want to watch another baseball film the way that you saw this one again.