When it was game I part 1

[zeppy215]

Baseball is the best game on Planet Earth!!

[GlorifiedTruth]

Brings back memories of the old parks, before everything was called "QualComm Stadium" or "Hewlett Packard/Sun Microsystems Field."

[SuperStrik9]

It's a little known fact that in the minor leagues a teammate once took a crap in a hot dog bun and offered it to Jackie Robinson as a black hot. That is one of if not the most dispicable thing I've ever heard that an athlete had to go through.

[impassable]

Nice..now we have too many playoff games and I hate all night World Series. what you can't play Saturday and Sunday WS games in the daytime when it's warmer. I don't like steroids but I still think Barry was the best player I ever saw before and after roids..

[Mr09204007]

I'd like to mention that approximately 7 minutes of the original footage for "When It Was A Game" was taken from my father's COLOR 8mm "home movies" - "Around The League 1939-46" is the DVD and includes about 37 minutes of the original film along with my dad's narration - you might want to take a look at our website - Timeless Baseball - has DVD information, blogs, photos and testimonials about WWII era major league baseball - a look at baseball's history through the eyes of a ballplayer!

[parkman35]

All sports ahve changed but baseball especially. It's all about money nowadays...

[nick4285]

How I would love to go back in time and sit through a game.

[AndrewBarria20]

Man, these were good times indeed!

[gaitgatsby]

Take me BACK to the ballgame!!

Where Lou still starts

And Babe still swings

Where Johnny still sees

and Leo still screams

Where Don still throws

and Mickey still hits

Harry still sings

~Original Poem by Mike Stoker (reference not verified)

[binarystar21]

I remember watching this as a kid.....12-13 years old. My little league, best times of my life era. The music/score in this is amazing......major props to whom ever produced this music score!

[huskyjerk]

@binarystar21 Yes the music and overall production, story outline, narrator is just wonderful !!!

[MIKEDOMO]

Baseball is amazing game in many wayssss!

[aitraining]

I own all 3 DVD's and have cherished them for years. I watch them with my son still.

[ausdarp]

Thank you so much for this.

[mpbliesener]

An age when one had to fight for everything, by and large. No sense of entitlement, and anything less than full out effort was likely met with scorn. A time when America had to be hard, especially in the middle of a depression. Baseball reflected the time. How I wish we, in this age of mediocrity, could re-adopt some of these qualities of toughness. Alas, I fear it is too late. And yes, I would be the first to admit I'm probably way too soft, in view of the approaching hard times.

[billc756]

AAHHH, The GOLDEN AGE of Baseball!!!

[billc756]

(with misty eyes) THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS GREAT SERIES

[wongleebruce]

No DH, complete games by starters, no seven game post season playoffs, no interleague, no 30 teams and six different divisions, no 5PM ESPN Saturday or Sunday night games, no $36-$120 ticket prices, other than that who's crying in baseball?

[BIGKELL9614]

The sad fact is that the present generation doesn't realize that the game was played differently in the past.  It was played the right way. They knew how to bunt, they knew how to hit the cut-off man, they knew how to respect their opponent, they played when they were hurt, they worked a job in the off-season, they played the game in a very different way, back then.

[tommyrock69]

@BIGKELL9614 Your comment on bunting is absolutely correct. I have never seen such poor bunting in the majors or as I do in Louisville's AAA team. It's as if it is a forgotten art. Agreed. Much different and grittier game.

[kwamizee]

best score ever

[downtownford]

i hella like james earl jones commentary @ 6:40

[billc756]

Beautiful. Best show ever on HBO. I love Baseball and I can't watch this stuff without gettin misty-eyed.

[blkngld08]

"I'd have played for food money… I used to love travelling on the trains from town to town. The hotels... brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. Shoot, I'd play for nothing!"

----shoeless Joe...thats what's missing in today's game...these guys above...played for the city, the smell, sights, and sounds of the game. They played because they loved the game they grew up playing. Wow, what a game.

[bigbadredsox]

By far, baseballs greatest era. Very few night games, teams traveled by train, no players union. no sorry-assed plastic fields and no indoor baseball. I could go on and on.

[Wehategod]

Long Live the Philadelphia A's

[TheGinger48]

@Wehategod Gotta love Connie Mack!

[Wehategod]

@TheGinger48 The Mack was of one a kind and a great manager a player too.

[rated1980]

now the dodgers are a L.A institution...yea yea!

[downtownford]

@rated1980 go giants

[Wehategod]

The Dodgers will always be a Brooklyn Institution and even though they are in LA they are still the Brooklyn Dodgers in my Heart

[gaitgatsby]

@rated1980 Sadly, Dodgers don't fill even the best seats at nailbiter games. I'm no baseball expert, just LOVE the feel, sounds, smells, Kemp (.335) ;) I go to both Dodger and ANAHEIM Angels games. Driving into the parking lot at Dodger Stadium, I'm instantly 14 again. Angels Stadium=new, nice but the 'feel' just isn't there, IMO. (crowds ARE, tho). WRIGLEY = ultimate! Day game, Harry Carey leaning out of the pressbox, swaying, singing.... Cubs fans watching from rooftops...

[obiwanobiwan13]

It's so beautiful...

I love footbal and hockey, but there's something about baseball... my friends, they're all with me in theatre, and they don't like football or hockey.

But my best friend got all excited when I bought her a Red Sox hat- and her mom, who'd passed on the love of that team to her, was so jealous...

I live and die for my New York Mets; I think their 1969 club was the last "oldie" team...

I shout for them, my friends all smile at it... baseball brings people together.

[MisterCrazyLegs]

ah, I love this....thanx

[stevevandien]

Great stuff. Thanks for posting:) --

[norseraider314]

pros today should take time to watch this and maybe appreciate how easy they have it.

[TheGinger48]

@norseraider314 True, so true. Imagine Derek Jeter playing without millions in guranteed money and having half a dozen players lining up every year in spring training to take his place.

[greenmonk]

@TheGinger48 Jeter would thrive in that environment, now a-rod's a different story...

[TheGinger48]

@greenmonk True.

[RedSoxFan10124]

Hey,Thanks for posting this :D.

[SCE2AUX]

I didn't know Darth Vader liked baseball!

[SOLOW232907]

Of course he does... look at the way he swings his big stick...

[Hoboscouts]

fag

[RedTintedGlasses]

@SCE2AUX What?

[bioknight7]

It's like seeing my baseball cards come to life.

[romancitoG]

what a gift-

thanks johnny.

thanks so much!

[johnnyv1938]

greatest show HBO has ever put on without a doubt.