Sentence examples for war baseball from inspiring English sources

11 American civil war; baseball; jazz; national parks; prohibition?

Having become, this week, a Ken Burns television series, Mark Twain stands preserved beside the Civil War, baseball and jazz.

Mr. Burns has said that he regards his three PBS documentaries -- "Civil War," "Baseball" and "Jazz" -- as a trilogy about race in America.

Though the men pursued all manner of activities, from boxing to an early version of football, during the first year of the war, baseball emerged as the soldiers' favorite team sport.

He has written "Blackguards and Red Stockings: A History of Baseball's National Association, 1871-1875" and "When Johnny Came Sliding Home: The Post-Civil War Baseball Boom, 1865-1870".

In recent years Mr. Burns, whose patented blend of original photographs, celebrity readings and articulate historians has captivated the television documentary audience with programs like "The Civil War," "Baseball" and "Jazz," has suffered some setbacks.

Now it happens that my name resembles that of a pre-war baseball hero, Hank Greenberg.

Andy McDonald is a comedy writer who enjoys "Star Wars," baseball and a third thing that's funny.

Ultimately, though, war trumped baseball.

Mr. Burns's previous documentaries include "The Civil War" and "Baseball".

The war and baseball continued to bump against each other, though.