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MLB DVDs | Home » » » When it Was a Game 2 | | | | | | | Description: | | Composed entirely of never-before-seen 8 and 16mm 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 DiMaggio 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 - theirs is the game - that won the hearts 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 Burstyn, 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 59 Minutes. | | | Features: | |
• Officially Licensed
• Highest Quality Recording
| | | Product Details: | | | Format:
| Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC | | Language:
| English, Spanish | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Hbo Home Video | | Run Time:
| 59 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| May 01, 2001 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 6 reviews |
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6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 moving documentaryApr 24, 2003
By Ching-An Cheng
All 3 WIWAG are excellent. This is more than just a well put together documentary. Its very moving because of the footage, narration and music. You don't feel like you are watching a DVD about baseball. It feels like you are watching a snapshot of Americana from the 50's and 60's. After watching this, you wish that things today were as they were back in those days. Not just baseball or sports, but life in general as it was protrayed in the DVDs.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
The best baseball movie of all time.Oct 26, 1999
By The Kid
This is no Hollywood baseball movie. This is the real deal. Exquisite colors and poetic comments from those who played baseball the way it should be played- as a game.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
More color home movies of baseball players (1925-1961)May 20, 2003
By Lawrance M. Bernabo
The initial joy of seeing baseball players like Lou Gehrig and retired greats like Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb and Cy Young in living color is worn off when you get to volume 2 of "When It Was a Game," but this is still a captivating look into the past. The time frame for these collected home movies from players and fans on 8mm and 16mm film is a bit broader this time around, going back to 1925 and forward to 1961, which means the oldest shots are actually in black & white and seem rather out of place, because once again the thrill here is seeing players and ballparks in glorious color. There is Hank Aaron wearing the great looking uniform of the Boston Braves, old Crosley Field in its green splendor, and Babe Ruth making his final appearance in a Yankee uniform at the Stadium. There is a bit more effort this time to have the disembodied voices talking about subjects that sort of match up to the images on the screen, such as Joe Garagiola talking about graffiti on an outfield billboard, Enos Slaughter explaining why he always ran on and off the field, and the story of catcher Moe Berg being a government spy while barnstorming with Connie Mack in Japan. There is a nice section on what lfie was like the Pacific Coast League when major league baseball did not exist west of St. Louis. But whether you actually listen to what is being said or tune it out will not affect your enjoyment of these nostalgic images. At the end of these hour-long HBO documentaries, when they simply show shots of various ballplayers and superimpose their names, that is the essence of what makes "When It Was a Game" so special. There is Jackie Robinson in color, Hank Greenberg in color, Mel Ott in color, and so on and so forth. Even when it is someone we are used to see in color, such as Yogi Berra or Willie Mays, we are still talking a young Yogi and a young "Say Hey" Kid. A lot of the action is off field-baseball players in Spring Training wearing bathing suits and cleats, Yogi and some other Yankees sticking out their tongues for the camera, the Chicago Cubs in a parade before the start of a World Series game-but that does not detract from our enjoyment of these simple film clips spliced together.
 When it Was Game 2Mar 18, 2012
By TShell
When I received this product, the packaging was correct, the label on the disk was right, but the film on the disk was When it Was a Game 1! I realize that this mistake was not the fault of Amazon, but of the producers of this film. Amazon sent me a replacement, but the results were the same! I gave this review one star because of Amazon's excellent service, but zero stars for the film producer's mistake.
Wonderful trip down memory lane.Dec 28, 2011
By A. L. Dew
"A. Lee Dew"
This is such a pleasant movie for any fan or baseball who wants to view how the game was played before expansion, PED, and other steriods ruined the game with cheaters such as Bonds, McGuire, Alex Rodriguez, and Clemens to name a few.
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