Play Ball! The Rise of Baseball as America’s Pastime Episode 1, Ground Rules: Baseball before Babe Ruth Episode 1, Ground Rules: Baseball before Babe Ruth.

Streaming video - 2019

The year 1920 is considered a pivotal year in baseball, when a sense of uniformity in the game was finally achieved. But what about the decades before? Travel back to the years before 1920 - a time when changes in the game were rapid, dramatic, and often surprising.