When It Was A Game: Triple Play Collection

For the first time, all three great When It Was A Game documentaries, capturing the joy of the game, the players, the stadiums and the fans themselves from the 1930's to the 1960's utilizing original 8mm and 16mm home movie footage.

When It Was A Game:
There 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 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.

When It Was A Game 2:
Composed entirely of never before seen 8 and 16mm footage filmed by 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 Connors and Tommy Lasorda in the Minor Leagues. These are the players - heir's 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 Ray Scheider, you will never forget the experience, 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 retrospective look at the changing face of baseball in America takes 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 bring this incredible period to life. Interviews from the field include Tim McCarver, Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, Bob Gibson and Juan Marachal and from the stands, fans and sports writers include Billy Crystal, Geraldo Rivera and Bob Costas.