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# UNUM Short: Baseball
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/unum/episode/unum-short-baseball-qqgjbm/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:16:20.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-21T07:59:03.000Z
- Description: Ken Burns considers baseball's role in pulling the nation forward.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Ken Burns UNUM, Season 2022, Episode 6, #ZZZ_Episode_7be79139-0667-4f06-aa6f-5c515d32fcee, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_7a735c68-f2d1-433e-af04-b6191f0d9ef3, #v1.16

In 1947, a young student at Morehouse College named Martin Luther King, Jr. watched as Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball. In this UNUM Short, Ken Burns considers baseball's role in pulling us forward.