Own the most watched NHL event of the year. Complete with highlights from the regular season, playoffs and the final series. Watch as the Carolina Hurricanes fight for, and eventually hoist the Cup! The 2006 release contains full coverage of the winning season, including exclusive interviews, key insights and behind the scenes action, and features the entire Game 7.
This magnificent DVD Collection elegantly displays the iconic moments, thrilling heroics, triumphant favorites, and breathtaking upsets across seven decades of World Series Films, plus a narrative and pictorial essay on the Fall Classic since its origin in 1903. This beautifully-packaged, digitally-preserved celebration of the Fall Classic is a timeless treasure that will become the ultimate centerpiece of any baseball fan's DVD library. Records and seasons change with time, but the legends and lore of the World Series on DVD will last forever.
The 2005 World Series DVD captures the best moments from the series including unique multi camera action footage, exclusive sound via wireless microphones and compelling never-before-seen interviews with key players, coaches and managers. Fans will relive all the decisive moments of the World Series, including every clutch hit, catch, strikeout and more. The program also features highlights of the White Sox's incredible season, Division Series and League Championship Series.
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.
Bill Campbell narrates this history of the city's long-lost big league baseball team. Using vintage photographs, archival footage and commentary from players Eddie Joosst, Gus Zernial and Joe Astroth, writer/producer James Rosin recalls the club's years in the City of Brotherly Love (1901-1954) before their move to Kansas City and eventual move to Oakland. Featured are the Athletics' eight World Series appearances, their legendary manager Connie Mack and Hall of Famers Lefty Grove, Jimmy Foxx, Mickey Cochrane and Al Simmons.
It seems elementary in the age of mega-league professional sports, many of which have been revolutionized by African American athletes, to point out that before Jackie Robinson major league baseball was lily white. The Negro Leagues were the crucible where African American players honed their skills. But it took over two decades, until Robert Peterson published Only the Ball Was White in 1972, to get a good glimpse at the stars and journeyman players of the Negro Leagues.
Hammerin' Hank Greenberg's career during the Golden Age of Baseball contains all the makings of a true American success story. As an extraordinary ball player, whose accomplishments rivaled those of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, Greenberg's career was an inspiration to all and captured the headlines and admiration of sportswriters and fans alike. This is the humorous and nostalgic true story of how he became a beacon of hope as a true American hero.
Baseball is seen as the quintessentially American sport with good reason. Emerging by the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's most popular game, baseball provided each new wave of immigrants with an avenue into American culture. Jews And Baseball traces the Jewish involvement in the history of the sport from the game's earliest days, through the tumultuous war years to today's All-Star games.
With unprecedented prowess, stellar pitching, heroic and timely hitting, the selfless, team-oriented players of the Chicago White Sox conquered the Baseball World. After battling through three rounds of competition, the White Sox claimed the World Series championship for the first time since 1917. The White Sox were the first team to clinch all three rounds with road victories.
Until Major League Baseball is able to preserve footage of the 1908 World Series in a digital format, Chicago Cubs fans will have to content themselves with the Chicago Cubs Legends - Great Games Collector's Edition. It's an eight-disc set of complete games in the Cubs' history since 1984, each dedicated to a significant player. Hall of Fame second-sacker Ryne Sandberg gets the obvious game, his coming-out-party on Game of the Week when his two clutch homers vs. St. Louis Cards closer Bruce Sutter signaled something big was happening in 1984.
