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An item in the Metromix section of the Chicago Tribune says that filmmaker Ken Burns is hoping to add an another chapter to the Berlin Alexanderplatz of baseball documentaries. (Actually, Fassbinder's film is shorter!)
...Burns wants to add footage of the Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa chase to break Roger Maris' single-season homer record in 1998 and the steroid controversy that soon followed, leading up to Bonds. "We're looking to make a '10th inning' to update it with all the dramatic stuff that has gone on since we brought out our last series," Burns told us ...
To prepare for this eventuality, Burns has already pieced together narration from Ossie Davis, John Chancellor, Buck O'Neil, Shelby Foote, and Stephen Jay Gould. We will learn that steroids were a big problem for baseball fans in New York, Boston, Chicago, and several other unnamed American cities. (Yes, I know they've passed away. It's part of the joke.)
Doris Kearns Goodwin will relate a tale of how her father asked her every day when he got home from work, "So, did Gil Hodges test positive today for HGH?"
:)
He was a giant in his primary field.
The term "old school" fit him perfectly, and for once it's a compliment.
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