Baseball's ghosts come alive in flickering newsreels — no HD, all heart.
Broadcaster Joe Garagiola narrates the greatest games of baseball's golden era in this nostalgia-packed documentary. Its unique focus is legendary ball games the way most of America witnessed them . . . in the movie newsreels. The venues are America's grand old ball parks: the original Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park, Brooklyn's Ebbets Field; the Polo Grounds, Tiger Stadium and other baseball landmarks that may be gone, but come to life again in this DVD. Witness Babe Ruth at bat; Lou Gehrig's ""luckiest man"" speech; Roger Maris breaking the Babe's home-run record; Pete Gray, the St. Louis Brown's one-armed outfielder; Ted William's final at-bat when he went out in grand style, ending his career with a home run, and other classic moments in baseball history.
Production
Painstaking archival restoration of decaying newsreel footage.
Sound
Garagiola's warm narration feels like a hug from history.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Joe Garagiola and Yogi Berra grew up across the street from each other on 'The Hill' in St. Louis — Garagiola getting this narration gig over his childhood rival is peak baseball poetry.
These newsreels were literally propaganda: studios staged 'spontaneous' moments and re-shot plays when cameras missed them, meaning your 'authentic' memory is partly Hollywood fiction.
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