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In our next segment, we visit individual stadiums, explore tales of classic teams, legendary stars and the devotion of the American baseball fan. First stop Yankee Stadium, home of the team that America loves to hate and a breeding ground for a host of superstars and legends. Back at the Hall of Fame in the world, Siri's Room, we explore the lives of ordinary men with extraordinary skills and look at how and why Americans have elevated such men to mythic places in our folklore. Chicago, Illinois In America's foremost sports city, our first location is Comiskey Park, the oldest standing major league ballpark in America. A Western aired bandicoot scampers through dense scrub and thickets after nightfall, searching for food. The little marsupial adeptly unearths insects and roots with its sharp four claws and with it's long nose probes the sandy soil and crevices for seed and herbs. During the day, the solitary bandicoot nestles into a shallow nest, asleep undetected beneath the cover of gathered plant or seagrass letter. This species is no longer found on the mainland and now exists only on two island nature reserves, where it is protected from introduced predators and habitat changes by mid 1940 the German army had conquered all of Western Europe. Hitler was tightening the noose around Britain. In the Atlantic, German U boats were decimating allied convoys, threatening to cut off Britain's only lifeline. But Churchill had a secret weapon. The strangest military establishment in the world. Crossword fanatics, chess champions, mathematicians, students and professors, Americans and British all came here with one common aim. To unlock the secrets of enigma, a machine the concealed Germany's war plans in seemingly unbreakable code. If enigma could be penetrated, everything Hitler plotted would be known in advance. At Bletchley Park, there unfolded one of the most astonishing exploits of the Second World War. Many here had never seen a code before. Yet it was their job to find a way to crack enigma. In the process, they devised ingenious, code breaking machines that were forerunners of the modern computer. But everything they did remain classified for 30 years. End seemed very near for Hudson, a Canadian Eskimo dog tethered near the shore of Hudson Bay, east of Churchill, Manitoba. £1000 polar bear was lumbering toward the dog in about 40 others, the prized possessions of Brian Loudoun. Ah, hunter and trapper. It was mid November. Ice had not yet formed on the bay, and the open water prevented bears from hunting their favorite prey seals. So this bear had been virtually fasting for four months. Surely a dog was destined to become a meal. The bear closed in did Hudson Howell in terror and try to flee. On the contrary, he wagged his tail and grinned and actually bowed to the bare, as if an invitation bear responded with enthusiastic body language and nonaggressive facial signals. Thes two normally antagonistic species were speaking the same language. Let's play.