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Shadow Ball

Season 1 Episode 5 | 2hr 04m 22s

Throughout America, and even on the baseball diamonds in New York's Central Park, thousands of homeless people build shantytowns called "Hoovervilles." More than ever, America needs heroes. And even as it struggles to make it through the Depression, baseball provides them. Inning Five, Shadow Ball, tells the story of the Negro Leagues in the 1930s, excluded from major league play at that time.

Aired: 03/12/20 | Expires: 04/30/22
Funding Provided By: General Motors Corporation; The National Endowment for the Humanities; The Pew Charitable Trusts; The Corporation for Public Broadcasting; The Public Broadcasting Service; Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
Extras
Inning One: Our Game looks at the origins of baseball in the 1840s and up to 1900.
Inning Three, The Faith of Fifty Million People, examines the century's second decade.
Inning Two, Something Like a War, takes viewers through 1910.
Inning Nine, Home, looks at baseball from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Inning Eight, A Whole New Ball Game, moves the field to the 1960s
Inning Seven, The Capital of Baseball, takes viewers through the 1950s.
Inning Four, A National Heirloom, concentrates on Babe Ruth.
Inning Six, The National Pastime, covers the 1940s.