WHEN IT WAS A GAME - DVD

Details

• Release Year: 2003
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: 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 16 mm 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 and 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 and Griffith Stadium. Names like these conjure up the magic of days gone by.; ; This never before seen film 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.
• 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, George Roy, Steven Stern
• Director: George Roy
• Runtime: 0:57
• Company: HBO Films
• Media Format: Movie