When It Was a Game - Triple Play Collection
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Canada DVD Cover InformationActor: Bud Abbott, Elden Auker, Hank Aaron, Red Barber, Yogi BerraBrand: Team Marketing Editor: George Roy Producer: George Roy Producer: David P. Harmon Producer: Eric Paulen Producer: Ross Greenburg Producer: Steven Stern Writer: Steven Stern DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Black & White, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 57 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-05-01 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Hbo Home Video Product features:
Movie Reviews of When It Was a Game - Triple Play CollectionMovie Review: Priceless Footage Honors the National Pastime
"When It Was A Game" was a labor of love, and when it was first televised on HBO the eyes of baseball fans were riveted and amazed. All 3 of these projects consist of "home movies" (usually shot in 8 mm), often shot by the players themselves. But almost all of these films are in vivid color - and to see the names that haunt Cooperstown in lifelike tones is an almost religious experience. It would be similar if it were possible to see color footage from the Civil War or the Constitutional Convention. Okay - I'm stretching it a little, but not by much. Baseball fans have always had a little historian in them, and although you'd be hard-pressed to find, for example, the sports fanatic who could tell you how many touchdown passes Unitas threw or how many points Wilt Chamberlain wound up with, even casual baseball fans knew numbers like 61 (the number of Home Runs Roger Maris hit in 1961), 56 (the number of consecutive games Joe DiMaggio hit safely in during the summer of 1941), 714 (Babe Ruth's lifetime home run total) and zero (the number of Brooklyn Dodgers who got on base during Don Larsen's perfect game of 1956.) If you took only the "named events" of the New York Giants at the famed Polo Grounds you could start with "the shot heard 'round the world" (Bobby Thompson's home run off Ralph Branca winning the 1951 National League pennant) and "the catch" (Willie Mays' amazing over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 475 foot drive to deep center field, saving the game and inspiring the Giants to win the 1954 World Series.)
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