Ken Burns’ Baseball premieres in HD tonight on MLB Network

Photo by Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Ken Burns throws out a ceremonial first pitch at Wrigley Field in 2010There are certain stories that never get old to me. My copies of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are dogeared and worn from being read almost every year since I was eight. My copies of the Anne of Green Gables series (yes, all eight books) are the same. Ken Burns’ Baseball, the 11-part documentary that premiered on PBS in 1994, and was updated with the top and bottom of the tenth inning in 2010, rises to the same level of stories that feel like being wrapped in a warm blanket as I eat my grandmother’s tortillas and posole. I am reasonably certain I’ve had the entire documentary saved on my TiVo since I got my first DVR when I moved to Boston - you know, just in case I needed to lose myself in the history of baseball on a snow day.

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