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 Scout (1994)
Adam Arkin Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	Get Shorty (2017)
Philip Bosco Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	The Savages (2007)
Thomas Boswell Self Self See fewer	The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame... (2005)
Keith Carradine Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	Nashville (1975)
John Chancellor Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Baseball (1994)
Ty Cobb Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Somewhere in Georgia (1917)
Ossie Davis Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	Do the Right Thing (1989)
Loren Dean Self - Various (voice) Self - 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)
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John Hartford Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Anthony Hopkins Self - Various (voice) Self - 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 Self - Various (voice) Self - 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 Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Alan King Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	Casino (1995)
Amy Madigan Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	Weapons (2025)
Christy Mathewson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Love and Baseball (1914)
Arthur Miller Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	The Crucible (1996)
Michael Moriarty Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	Courage Under Fire (1996)
Buck O'Neil Self Self See fewer	Baseball (1994)
Tip O'Neill Self - Various (voice) (as Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill) Self - Various (voice) (as Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill) See fewer	Dave (1993)
Daniel Okrent Self Self See fewer	Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Gregory Peck Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
George Plimpton Self / Self - Franklin P. Adams Self / 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 Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	The Civil War (1990)
Aidan Quinn Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	Legends of the Fall (1994)
Jason Robards Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	All the President's Men (1976)
Paul Roebling Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	Blue Thunder (1983)
Vin Scully Self Self See fewer	For Love of the Game (1999)
Studs Terkel Self / Self - Various Self / Self - Various See fewer	Eight Men Out (1988)
John Thorn Self Self See fewer	Baseball's Golden Age (2008)
John Turturro Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	Fading Gigolo (2013)
Honus Wagner Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Spring Fever (II) (1919)
Eli Wallach Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
M. Emmet Walsh Self - Various (voice) Self - Various (voice) See fewer	Blade Runner (1982)
George F. Will Self (as George Will) Self (as George Will) See fewer	Baseball (1994)
Paul Winfield Self - W.E.B. DuBois (voice) Self - W.E.B. DuBois (voice) See fewer	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)