When It Was A Game: The Complete 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. These are the greats of baseball history, legends in their lifetime and legends today. It's baseball as you've never seen it before and the way you always imagined it was. When It Was A Game is composed entirely of 8mm 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-and-white newsreel footage, and appear in living, breathing color. Players like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb and Joe DiMaggio. 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 and the players are no longer with us. But their memory is z and the magic of those memories is brought vividly to life in When It Was A Game.