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 Ballfield to Battlefield and Back from FDR to JFK
Released in 2009, our DVD "Stars Of Baseball, 1945-1953" features some of the top players of the era including George Case of the Washington Senators. Case, a six-time American League base-stealing champ, himself took home movies of other major leaguers during his playing days - in COLOR! A teammate of George's was two-time A.L. batting champion Mickey Vernon, another home movie fan who also was making color movies during his playing career which ended in 1960 with the World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates. Before he passed away in 2008, Mickey decided to also do what Case had done before he died - narrate his film so that all players would be positively identified for posterity.
Recently George's son, George Case III , collaborated with Jim Vankoski of the Mickey Vernon Sports History Museum (Chadd's Ford, PA) to put together the vintage films of both players on a new DVD! The two decided it was appropriate to tie the films to the WWII era of major league baseball as both believe there is still today a very strong connection of major league baseball and the military, with most of the players shown in the DVD also serving in WWII. Because of this and the era, the one hour DVD is titled, "Ballfield to Battlefield and Back, from FDR to JFK". With its obvious Washington connection, presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy are shown at the ballpark, as well as Hall of Famers Honus Wagner (coach, spring training), Babe Ruth (Babe Ruth Day 1947), Hank Greenberg, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Jackie Robinson, Yogi Berra, Stan Musial, Warren Spahn, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays and more than 70 other major leaguers who served in our Armed Forces.
Doak Ewing, president of Rare Sportsfilms, Inc. recently reviewed the new release and says, "I was critical of the much-hyped DVD set "When It Was A Game". The color images were fine, but very few players were identified because the producers did not make the effort to contact someone who knew baseball to identify them. The strength of "Ballfield to Battlefield" is that the actual voices of Case and Vernon are identifying the images and in many instances making a comment about the player being shown! If you are interested in color movies of major league baseball from 1939-1962, then "Ballfield To Battlefield" is a 'must have' for you", Ewing says.
For more information or to order the DVD "Ballfield to Battlefield and Back, from FDR to JFK", (price: $29.95 PPD) contact:
George W. Case, III
Case67@verizon.net
www.timelessbaseball.com
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Dear Subscriber,
Season's Greetings from Rare Sportsfilms, Inc.! We're proud to announce the last four new offerings of the year 2012 (see them described below).
Of particular significance is the 1982 Atlanta Braves TV special, "It's A Long Way To October". With this new (now 30 years old) baseball release we are once again expanding the variety of our offerings. The first truly "behind-the-scenes" baseball documentary, it set new standards for baseball TV coverage! It is a big, two-disk set which runs almost 3½ hours! Be sure to click on the link below to read more about it and special group pricing for all four new titles!
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1982 Atlanta Braves
1982 Atlanta Braves - "It's A Long Way To October" is a huge 3½ hour WTBS cable TV special on the 1982 Atlanta Braves' Division-winning season! Covers a complete season in the life of a major league baseball team from spring training to the season-ending club house celebration! Takes viewers into the Braves locker room, behind the closed doors of private front office meetings, out to the mound with new Braves manager Joe Torre as he talks with pitchers or argues with umpires, and into the dugout as Torre and coach Bob Gibson discuss game strategy. Another rare broadcast treasure from Rare Sportsfilms!
Running time: 3 Hours, 20 minutes, COLOR.
Jim Brown leads NFL in rushing in his rookie year! Tommy O'Connell, Milt Plum, Groza, Fiss, Gain, Konz, Len Ford, Chuck Noll, Ray Renfro, Mike McCormack and coach Paul Brown take Browns to their 11th title in 12 years! All 14 games shown, plus NFL title game! Narrated by Ken Coleman.
Running time: 43 minutes, B & W.
"Time For Football" TV show covers week #14 of the 1957 NFL season - games of Saturday and Sunday December 14 and 15. The 1957 NFL Highlight film shows each team's best game of the year from last place Cardinals to World Champ Lions! Both of these rare films narrated by Jim Leaming are on one DVD!
Running time: 52 minutes
"The Big Play", narrated by Lyle Bond, shows all seven home games from '67, plus games from Buffalo, Kansas City, Denver and Boston. Hadl, Alworth, Garrison, Frazier, and rookies Dick Post and Brad Hubbert all playing wide-open AFL football in pre-merger days!
Running time: 25 Minutes, COLOR.
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