WHEN IT WAS A GAME: TRIPLE PLAY COLLECTION (FULL SCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1991
• Genre: Documentary, Sports
• Plot: --When it Was a Game--; These are the greats of baseball history, legends in their lifetime - legends today.; It's baseball as you've never seen it before - the way you always imagined - the way it was.; ; WHEN IT WAS A GAME is composed entirely of 8 and 16mm home movie footage taken by fans and the players themselves between 1934 and 1957.; ; For the first time, star players and their stadiums step out of the black & white newsreel footage, and appear in living, breathing color.; ; Players like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb and Joe Dimaggio. Teams like The 'Gas House Gang' Cardinals, The New York Giants, and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ballparks like Ebbets Field, Briggs Stadium, Crosley Field, anf Griffith Stadium. Names like these conjure up the magic of days gone by.; ; This never before seen footage, made available to the public for the first time, includes what is thought to be the oldest existing color footage of a World Series: the 1938 World Series at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.; ; As time passed, baseball changed, some of the clubs, the parks, the players are no longer with us. But their memory is - and the magic of those memories is brought vividly to life, back WHEN IT WAS A GAME.; ; ; --When it Was a Game 2--; Composed entirely of never-before-seen 8 and 16mm home movie footage filmed by the players, their families, and their fans between 1925 and 1961, WHEN IT WAS A GAME 2 brings many of these precious lost moments, and the men who lived them, to life the way you remember them - in living color.; ; See Joe Dimmagio and Ty Cobb, Roy Campanella and Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron and Satchel Paige, Willie Mays and unique footage of the great Babe Ruth, along with rare scenes of the young Chuck Conners and Tommy Lasorda in the Minor Leagues. These are the players - their's is the game - that won the heart of America. Now you can see them as never before in original film footage that will transport you to a time gone by.; ; Narrated by Peter Kessler with Ellen Burtsyn, Billy Crystal, Joe Mantegna, Jack Palance, Jason Robards and Roy Scheider, you will never forget the experience, but you can always treasure the magic of days gone by with WHEN IT WAS A GAME 2.; ; ; --When it Was a Game 3--; WHEN IT WAS A GAME,the home-run series for baseball fans, returns for another glorious inning with an exciting and colorful new program narrated by Liev Schreiber: WHEN IT WAS A GAME 3.; ; This retorspective look at the changing face of baseball in America take's on the 1960's, a time many believe was the last decade of baseball's innocence.; ; Though Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and the powerful New York Yankees led off the decade with four straight World Series appearances, by 1964 they were headed for the showers. With the integration of baseball, spearheaded by Jackie Robinson in 1947, black superstars fueled the sport's growth and a fresh Latin presence brought a new spirit to the game. New names of the 60's that neighborhood kids had to have in their card collection would include the likes of Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente and Sandy Koufax.; ; WHEN IT WAS A GAME 3 features never-before-seen home movies and vintage photographs with memorable storytelling that brings this incredible period to life. Interviews from the field include Tim McCarver, Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, Bob Gibson and Jaun Marachal and from the stands, fans and sports writers include Billy Crystal, Geraldo Rivera and Bob Costas.;
• Cast: Hank Aaron, Bud Abbott, Elden Auker, Red Barber, Yogi Berra, Clay Bryant, Roy Campanella, Ty Cobb, Lou Costello, Robert W. Creamer, Joe Cronin, Dizzy Dean, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Bobby Doerr, Leo Durocher, Bob Feller, Whitey Ford, Jimmie Foxx, Frankie Frisch, Lou Gehrig, Charlie Gehringer, Joe Gordon, Hank Greenberg, Donald Hall, Tommy Henrich, Billy Herman, George Hick, Donald Honig, Rogers Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, James Earl Jones, Peter Kessler, Ralph Kiner, Whitey Kurowski, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Stan Musial, Don Newcombe, Mel Ott, Jesse Owens, Leroy 'Satchel' Paige, Max Patkin, Pee Wee Reese, Lawrence Ritter, Jason Robards, Robin Roberts, Frank Robinson, Jackie Robinson, Ray Robinson, Babe Ruth, Roy Scheider, Enos Slaughter, Duke Snider, Honus Wagner, Bill Werber, Burgess Whitehead, Ted Williams, Cy Young, Brock Peters, Steven Stern
• Director: Steven Stern
• Runtime: 2:56
• Company: HBO Home Video
• Media Format: movie