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# When it Was a Game: The Complete Collection [Blu-ray]

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For the first time in the full three-part HBO® series on Blu-ray, the greatest legends of baseball history are vividly brought to life through never-before-seen home movie footage and memorable storytelling from fans and players alike. See Hall of Famers including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Sandy Koufax. Relive precious lost moments from teams like the "Gas House Gang" Cardinals, the New York Giants, and Brooklyn Dodgers. Experience epic ballparks like Ebbets Field, Briggs Stadium, and Crosley Field. Marvel at the remarkable, changing face of baseball through the years - spearheaded by Jackie Robinson in 1947. Also featuring insightful narration, interviews, and remembrances from celebrities, stars, writers, and sportscasters, When It Was A Game: The Complete Collection captures the full magic of America's National Pastime as you've always imagined - the way it really was.

## Product Details

- **Genre:** Documentary, Drama/Sports, Television
- **Format:** NTSC, Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen
- **Contributor:** Various
- **Language:** English
- **Number Of Discs:** 1

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "When It Was a Game:" A captivating spiritual paean to America's national pastime during its "golden age."
*by M***S on May 28, 2016*

Back in the late summer of 1991, just before I shipped out for a three-year overseas military assignment, I watched “When It Was a Game” on HBO. This is a film about major league baseball during its “golden age” of the 1930s through the mid-1950s. It primarily features 8- and 16-mm color home movies of the players, owners, ballparks, and fans of the time. I remember as I watched it how completely captivated by it I was. I never forgot the eloquent narrative, the stories told by the players, and especially that hauntingly beautiful opening music.Because my three-year assignment ultimately turned into a six-year stint, I never saw “When It Was a Game” again, and never knew that two sequels were made in the ensuing years.Last week I discovered “When It Was a Game: The Complete Collection” on Blu-ray disc at Amazon.com. This single disc contains all three parts to this wonderful series. Naturally I ordered a copy of it.When I watched Part I, I was able to rediscover the depth of feeling I had the first (and only} time I saw it. I had never seen Parts II and III, so these were new experiences for me. Part II is every bit as good as its predecessor; it contains all new color home movie footage from the mid-1920s through the mid-1950s, and carries forward the history of the game in that era with new detail. Part III is perhaps the best of all. Originally broadcast in 2000, this part features color footage of the players, managers, owners and fans in the decade of the 1960s, when baseball experienced some of the most important and radical changes in the sport’s history.Video and audio quality in this set are spectacular. Video has been remastered in 1080p high definition. Images are sharp and colors are vivid. Audio is DTS-HD Master Multi-channel and is warm, rich, and full.I would term “When It Was a Game: The Complete Collection” a kind of spiritual paean to the game of baseball during its golden age. It doesn’t provide the same chronological history of the game like Ken Burns’ documentary “Baseball” does. Neither does it shy away from baseball’s ugly side. It is quite frank in its discussions of racism, the players’ fight against the reserve clause, and the growing problem of substance abuse within the game.“When It Was a Game: The Complete Collection" is a must-own for baseball fans and those who love the history of the game. Highly recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Priceless Footage Honors the National Pastime
*by M***R on December 6, 2005*

"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.)For fans who like their baseball heroic, "When It Was A Game" brings their heroes to full-color life.Appropriate music and reverent narration add to the historic but vibrant qualities of the works. "When It Was A Game" was eye-catching when it debuted, and so popular that it spawned a sequel that was more or less more of the same. The third volume may be the most interesting of all (especially if you're old enough to remember watching baseball from the 1960s on), but it also adds the historical context that the innovative National League completely dominated the old boy network of the American League because of their willingness to sign Black players like Willie Mays and Hank Aaron and Latinos like Roberto Clemente. The NL won 19 out of 20 All-Star Games starting in 1962, and this little documentary doesn't mind saying that it was the narrow-mindedness of the American League that allowed Morgan, Stargell, Banks, Gibson, Marichal and McCovey to join Mays, Clemente and Aaron on teams that regularly trounced the other, whiter, league.Like Ken Burns' "Baseball", this set is a video love-song to baseball.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ BASEBALL BEFORE FREE AGENCY!!
*by L***D on June 22, 2009*

This HBO documentary is divided into three one hour segments, each remembering a different era. You can buy or rent them individually but I recommend watching all three. The entire series consists of 8mm and 16mm clips shot entirely by fans and players. Almost all are in color and none are done by professional photographers. The quality is amazing considering the sources -clear, sharp pictures. There are special features on Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle and Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson and others. This is for those of us who remember or want to know about when players lived in our neighborhoods, shopped at our stores and had second jobs during the off season to make ends meet. Dick Raddatz recalls making $6,000 pitching for the Red Sox during the season and $11,000 during the off season as a furniture mover. We lived for several years next door to Camilo Pascual, the great pitcher for the Senators and Twins. We would play catch in the back yard and my sisters would babysit his children. Jim Kaat shopped at my (future) in-laws corner grocery store and lived down the block. They were real heroes to all of us and they were regular people, too. This series starts in the 30's (they really did have color film) and ends in 1970 with the advent of free agency, which arguably changed the game forever, whatever you might think of its validity. This is nothing but three hours of fun and nostalgia. If you're a baseball fan, it would be hard to recommend anything else that would be as much just plain fun. None of us can turn back the clock but for three hours you can relive those years when baseball was just a game. Enjoy.

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