Baseball

from the PBS mini-series: Baseball

by  Ken Burns

Narration:    It is played everywhere.  In parks and playgrounds and prison yards. In back alleys and farmer's fields. By small children and by old men. By raw amateurs and millionaire professionals. It is a leisurely game that demands blinding speed. The only game where the defense has the ball. It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the cold, hard facts of autumn. It is a haunted game, where each player is measured by the ghosts of those who have gone before.

Ultimately, it is about time and timelessness, speed and grace, failure and loss, imperishable hope, and most of all... coming home.