Demo Recording of segment of Ken Burns' documentary \"Baseball\"
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM)Transcript
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In 19 09, a man named Charles Hercules Evitts began secretly buying up adjacent parcels of land in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, including the site of a garbage dump called Pig Town because of the pigs that once ate their fill there and the stench that filled the air he hoped eventually to build a permanent home for the lackluster baseball team he had once worked for and now owned the team was called the Trolley Dodgers or just the Dodgers after the way their devoted fans negotiated. Brooklyn's busy streets in 1912, construction began by the time it was completed, Pigtown had been transformed into Evitts Field baseball's newest shrine where some of the game's greatest drama would take place.