Baseball: The Tenth Inning

For years after the broadcast of Baseball, our 1994 PBS series on the history of our national pastime that charted more than 150 years from the game's invention in 1839 to 1992, we vowed we would not do a sequel to it. We'd been there, done that. But as the past two decades unfolded, it became clear that those years were among the most consequential in the game's history. Change came - expanded playoffs, interleague play, not to mention the devastating strike of 1994 and the lingering shadow cast by the steroid scandal.

But baseball also enjoyed a golden age, and from the ruins of the strike came some of the most positive advances in the game. So we felt we needed to do Baseball: The Tenth Inning, which premieres Sept. 28 and 29 on PBS.