Baseball Something Like a War (Season 1, Episode 2)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 103 min | Documentary, History, Sport

Baseball

Something Like a War (Season 1, Episode 2)

TV-PG

TV Episode | 103 min | Documentary, History, Sport

In 1894, a sportwriter named Byron Bancroft "Ban" Johnson takes over a struggling minor league - the Western League - and turns it into a financial success.

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43 cast members

Name	Known for
Roger Angell Self Self See fewer	The Loretta Young Show (1953)
Adam Arkin Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	Get Shorty (2017)
Philip Bosco Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	The Savages (2007)
Thomas Boswell Self Self See fewer	The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame... (1999)
Keith Carradine Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	Nashville (1975)
John Chancellor Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Baseball (1994)
Ty Cobb Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Somewhere in Georgia (1917)
Ossie Davis Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	Do the Right Thing (1989)
Loren Dean Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	Ad Astra (2019)
Shelby Foote Self Self See fewer	Memphis (1992)
Doris Kearns Goodwin Self Self See fewer	Lincoln (2012)
Stephen Jay Gould Self Self See fewer	3-2-1 Contact (1980)
Donald Hall Self Self See fewer	Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon: Keeping You Safe Beside Me (1999)
John Hartford Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Anthony Hopkins Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
DeWolf Hopper Sr. Self - reciting 'Casey at the Bat' (archive footage) Self - reciting 'Casey at the Bat' (archive footage) See fewer	Don Quixote (1915)
Derek Jacobi Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	Gosford Park (2001)
Walter Johnson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Baseball Revue of 1917 (1917)
Garrison Keillor Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Alan King Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	Casino (1995)
Amy Madigan Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	Field of Dreams (1989)
Christy Mathewson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Love and Baseball (1914)
Arthur Miller Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	The Crucible (1996)
Michael Moriarty Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	Courage Under Fire (1996)
Buck O'Neil Self Self See fewer	Baseball (1994)
Tip O'Neill Various (voice) (as Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill) Various (voice) (as Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill) See fewer	Dave (1993)
Daniel Okrent Self Self See fewer	Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Gregory Peck Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
George Plimpton Self / Franklin P. Adams Self / Franklin P. Adams See fewer	Good Will Hunting (1997)
Shirley Povich Self Self See fewer	The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998)
Jody Powell Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	The Civil War (1990)
Aidan Quinn Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	Benny & Joon (1993)
Jason Robards Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	All the President's Men (1976)
Paul Roebling Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	Blue Thunder (1983)
Vin Scully Self Self See fewer	For Love of the Game (1999)
Studs Terkel Self / Various Self / Various See fewer	Eight Men Out (1988)
John Thorn Self Self See fewer	Baseball (1994)
John Turturro Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	Fading Gigolo (2013)
Honus Wagner Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Spring Fever (II) (1919)
Eli Wallach Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
M. Emmet Walsh Various (voice) Various (voice) See fewer	Blood Simple (1984)
George F. Will Self (as George Will) Self (as George Will) See fewer	Baseball (1994)
Paul Winfield W.E.B. DuBois (voice) W.E.B. DuBois (voice) See fewer	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)