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Washington, DC: An Inspiring Tour

ASIN : B000EMBLLG
Sales Rank : 48747
Brand : Finley-Holiday Film Corp.
Studio : Finley-Holiday Film Corp.
Model : DV-26
Region Code : 0
Format : NTSC
Feature : DVD Extra - Interactive Menus Chapter Search; DVD Extra - Bonus 1920s Footage of Washington; DVD Extra - Bonus Six Additional Virginia Historic Sites; DVD Extra - Screen Saver Internet Resources; DVD Extra - Digital Picture & Sound Quality
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0739847700261
UPC : 739847700261
Publisher : Finley-Holiday Film Corp.
Manufacturer : Finley-Holiday Film Corp.
Label : Finley-Holiday Film Corp.
Running Time : 80

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Explore the Smithsonian Institution and its museums. Tour the White House, as well as the Capitol Building, National Archives, Library of Congress and Ford's Theatre. Visit inspiring memorials: Lincoln, Jefferson, Vietnam Veterans, World War II and FDR, plus the Washington Monument, Kennedy's gravesite & Arlington.

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Champions of Faith: Baseball Edition Special Extended Bonus Features Version

ASIN : B0018ZOAQG
Sales Rank : 44400
Director : John Morales
Brand : TLA RELEASING
Studio : TLA
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0807839003604
UPC : 807839003604
Release Date : December 15, 2008
Publisher : TLA
Manufacturer : TLA
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Label : TLA
Running Time : 95
Actors: Mike Piazza, Mike Sweeney, David Eckstein, Jeff Suppan, Jack McKeon

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Baseball champions Mike Piazza, David Eckstein, Juan Pierre, Jeff Suppan, Mike Sweeney and Jack McKeon lead an All-Star line-up of over two dozen players, managers and coaches speaking frankly about family, sacrifice and leadership in this moving and uplifting documentary. You will laugh, cry, stand, cheer and be awed by the captivating personal stories and thrilling game highlights that reveal a side of superstar athletes that one rarely sees. Shot in breathtaking Hi-def video and set to a rousing musical score featuring legendary recording artist Bob Dylan, Champions of Faith tells the story of faith in baseball like no other film ever made as it provides an emotional, powerful, action-packed glimpse into what makes a baseball player-and human being-great. This special collector s edition features a 44 minute bonus feature: The Bases of Life as well as over 40 minutes of behind the scenes interviews and added content!

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The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg

ASIN : B00005NTOI
Sales Rank : 55864
Director : Aviva Kempner
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543025788
UPC : 024543025788
Release Date : December 16, 2001
Publisher : 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
Label : 20th Century Fox
Running Time : 95
Actors: Rabbi Reeve Brenner, Hank Greenberg, Walter Matthau, Alan M. Dershowitz, Carl Levin

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As baseball's first Jewish star, Hammerin' Hank Greenberg's career contains all the makings of a true American sucess story. An extraordinary ball player notorious for his hours of daily practice, Greenberg's career was an inspiration to all and captured the headlines and the admiration of sportswriters and fans alike. This is the story of how he became an American hero.

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Aviva Kempner's Peabody Award-winning documentary is about baseball like Field of Dreams is about cornfields. Kempner efficiently covers all the bases of Detroit Tigers Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg's magnificent career with archival footage and talking heads, including family members, former teammates and baseball legends, broadcasters and sportswriters, and such unabashed fans as Alan Dershowitz and Walter Matthau. If this biography's style is not remarkable, its subject certainly was. Greenberg, the son of immigrant parents, was a beacon of hope to Jews. As one observer notes, baseball was a way of "showing we were as American as everybody else." To see one of their own succeed in the national pastime at a time of virulent anti-Semitism was a source of pride and inspiration. One lifelong fan, a rabbi, states, "He was the baseball Moses." Winner of several critics association awards for Best Documentary, this is a stirring film for all seasons. --Donald Liebenson

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Take Me Out to the Ball Game

ASIN : B00004TZS3
Sales Rank : 40120
Director : Busby Berkeley
Studio : Warner Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780790750156
ISBN : 0790750155
UPC : 012569511927
Release Date : December 19, 2000
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
Label : Warner Home Video
Running Time : 93
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett, Edward Arnold

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"From the moment you picked up that grounder and threw it to third, I knew it was love." Baseball and romance make a nifty double play in Take Me Out to the Ball Game, a bright bauble from the golden age of MGM musicals. The premise is a stretch: two members of a turn-of-the-century baseball team (Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra) are vaudeville performers in the off-season. Their ballclub is inherited by Esther Williams, causing much consternation among the boys and anticipating the plot line of Major League by 40 years.

Since swimming star Williams was always seen to best advantage dripping wet, the movie finds a way to get her into a hotel pool. Kelly, mugging mercilessly, executes an extended Irish solo dance (take that, Riverdance), and Sinatra, whose skinny frame is the source of many jokes in the script, is pursued by the irrepressible Betty Garrett and croons the ballad "The Right Girl for Me."

None of this is remotely plausible, and the Comden-Green songs don't stand the test of time, but the film is buoyant--and the period costumes and dazzling Technicolor are eye-popping. This was a reunion for Sinatra and Kelly after Anchors Aweigh (1945), and they would quickly team up again in the superior On the Town (1949), alongside Take Me Out costars Garrett and looming Jules Munshin. As in those films, Sinatra and Kelly dancing side-by- side are a delightful spectacle: Kelly effortlessly hitting his marks while Sinatra gamely tries to keep up. Take Me Out to the Ball Game was the last film directed by the legendary director-choreographer Busby Berkeley, who gets just one shot at a huge production number, a pseudo-Rodgers and Hammerstein tune, "Strictly U.S.A." Peanuts and Cracker Jack not included. --Robert Horton

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MLB Vintage World Series Films - Anaheim Angels 2002

ASIN : B000MKXEYW
Sales Rank : 56993
Brand : Team Marketing
Studio : A&E Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Feature : Officially Licensed; Highest Quality Recording
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0733961771268
UPC : 733961771268
Release Date : December 27, 2007
Publisher : A&E Home Video
Manufacturer : A&E Home Video
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Label : A&E Home Video
Running Time : 93
Actors: Mike Sciosia, Garret Anderson, Darin Erstad, Tim Salmon, David Eckstein

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This all-California final featured the first Fall Classic® match-up of two Wild Card teams and set numerous records as the Anaheim Angels® captured their first World Series® championship.

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2006 World Series - Tigers vs. Cardinals (The Official Highlights MLB DVD Release)

ASIN : B000H6SY3C
Sales Rank : 49844
Brand : Team Marketing
Studio : Shout Factory Theatr
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, NTSC
Feature : Officially Licensed; Highest Quality Recording
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0826663102178
UPC : 826663102178
Release Date : December 21, 2006
Publisher : Shout Factory Theatr
Manufacturer : Shout Factory Theatr
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Label : Shout Factory Theatr
Running Time : 112
Actors: Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Cardinals

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From Major League Baseball Productions -- the official highlights DVD of the 2006 World Series!

Narrated by Billy Bob Thornton.

It is, quite simply, the beauty of baseball.

The 2006 post-season began with a bevy of favorites. The Detroit TigersÂ® tore through the American LeagueÂ® with their 100 MPH pitchers. The New York MetsÂ® laid to waste the National League EastÂ®. The Oakland A'sÂ® had a starting rotation that frightened most everyone. And the New York YankeesÂ® featured one of the greatest lineups of all time. The St. Louis CardinalsÂ® were also in the playoffs -- but just barely. In the final weeks, the Cardinals lost eight of nine, watched their seven game lead disappear and just missed being eliminated. No team that finished a full season with 83 wins had ever won a World SeriesÂ®. According to experts, the Cardinals had no chance.

And that's the beauty of baseball.

St. Louis beat San Diego in the NLDSÂ® and shocked the mighty Mets in the NLCSÂ®. In the World Series, they faced the heavily-favored Detroit Tigers team that had a week's worth of rest. But the St. Louis starters and rookie closer Adam Wainright held the Tigers to just eleven runs through five games. Yadier Molina, Scott Rolen and Jim Edmonds came up huge at the plate. And the consummate gamer - 5'7" shortstop David Eckstein hit .364 and became the first National League shortstop to be named World Series MVP.

When the smoke cleared, the Cardinals emerged from the pack of behemoths with the team's 10th World Series victory - the second most of all time. Tony LaRussa became just the second manager in MLB history to win a World Series title in both leagues. It was all inexplicable, delightfully improbable and deliciously poetic. It's the beauty of baseball, and it's why they play the game.

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The 2006 World Series: Tigers vs. Cardinals DVD is really the story of the underdog team from St. Louis. Not that the Detroit Tigers are ignored. But the Cardinals took the championship within five games despite a lousy regular season--a mere 83 wins--proving that baseball is not a game of statistics but of whatever dramas are happening on the field in the here-and-now. 2006 World Series, narrated by Cardinals fan Billy Bob Thornton, takes viewers through the team's many post-season dramas, beginning with the National League championship series in which the Cards faced the seemingly superior New York Mets. What matters, the team's players and manager Tony La Russa declare in interviews, is not the numbers but relentless, hard work--keeping the fire alive until something breaks in one's favor. Indeed, as one can see from this disc's thoughtful analysis and great storytelling, things began to click for the Cardinals right when they needed it. Besides taki! ng a close look at the lead-up to the World Series, this documentary dissects each game in the championship competition. (We also see a generous amount of film footage from the last couple of times--most recently in 1968--the Cards faced the Detroit Tigers in the World Series.) There's a lot to love here: action on the field, the history of La Russa's close friendship with Tigers' manager Jim Leyland, player insights, Thornton's compelling narration. Plus some great bonus material, including footage of the suspenseful, final out of the last game between St. Louis and Milwaukee in the 1982 World Series. 60 min. --Tom Keogh

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When it Was a Game 2

ASIN : B000059H7M
Sales Rank : 22335
Brand : Team Marketing
Studio : Hbo Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Feature : Officially Licensed; Highest Quality Recording
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780783118550
ISBN : 0783118554
UPC : 026359084324
Release Date : December 01, 2001
Publisher : Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer : Hbo Home Video
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Label : Hbo Home Video
Running Time : 58
Actors: Hank Aaron, Mel Allen, Elden Auker, Red Barber, John Beradino

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Composed entirely of never-before-seen 8 and 16mm footage filmed by the players, their families and their fans between 1925 and 1961, When It Was A Game 2 brings many of these precious lost moments, and the men who lived them, to life the way you remember them - in living color. See Joe DiMaggio and Ty Cobb, Roy Campanella and Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron and Satchel Paige, Willie Mays and unique footage of the great Babe Ruth, along with rare scenes of the young Chuck Conners and Tommy Lasorda in the Minor Leagues. These are the players - theirs is the game - that won the hearts of America. Now you can see them as never before in original film footage that will transport you to a time gone by. Narrated by Peter Kessler with Ellen Burstyn, Billy Crystal, Joe Mantegna, Jack Palance, Jason Robards and Roy Scheider, you will never forget the experience, but you can always treasure the magic of days gone by with When It Was A Game 2 59 Minutes.

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Arguably more defined and even more lyrical than its predecessor (When It Was a Game), this HBO documentary moves from a general celebration of baseball culture in America to a specific focus on various facets of the game's history. Once again using footage compiled from the 8mm and 16mm collections that players and fans shot over decades, this sequel follows, among other things, the special relationship between game announcers and fans and takes a fascinating trip through the story of the farm-team system during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s (particularly the near-alternate world of the Coast League). There's also an enlightening sidebar about the old disparity of capital and profits among major-league teams (as opposed to the contemporary disparity), and about how each season's funding shortages took a toll on such lowly outfits as the Boston Braves and the St. Louis Browns. The working-class commonality of players and fans is examined, too: imagine taking the subway home from Ebbets Field and finding yourself looking back on the day's game with a Dodger outfielder. (It could, and often did, happen.) Brooklyn's assimilation of the Dodgers into their community identity, a story often told, is covered quite winningly here, as is the heartbreak of the team's desertion to sunny California. Closing in on its final minutes, the film takes us on a tour of some of the game's legends and presents a touching tribute to the extraordinary Babe Ruth. --Tom Keogh

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Kokoyakyu (High School Baseball)

ASIN : B000GYI2H8
Sales Rank : 31098
Studio : CustomFlix
Region Code : 0
Format : NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0883629050522
UPC : 883629050522
Release Date : December 13, 2006
Publisher : CustomFlix
Manufacturer : CustomFlix
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Actors: Hank Aaron, Mel Allen, Elden Auker, Red Barber, John Beradino

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The Award-winning PBS documentary!

* The only Western film ever to explore the Japanese Way of Baseball

* Experience the baseball culture that produced MLB superstars Ichiro Suzuki, Daisuke Matsuzaka, and Hideki Matsui

* NEW! DVD extras include interviews with Hideki Matsui of the New York Yankees, Author Robert Whiting, deleted scenes, and more

* An exciting way for your class to learn about Japan!

Taking Western viewers inside a never-before-seen world, "Kokoyakyu (High School Baseball)" follows two schools of the 4,000 in Japan striving to make it to the National Championships at Koshien Stadium.

Much more just than a game, this martial arts baseball has a deeper purpose: the forging of the spirit.

Through the stories of two schools, the film brings audiences inside this closed world where an American game has become a Japanese discipline.

A Tale of Two Schools: Chiben is a private, powerhouse baseball academy led by Japan's most legendary tough-as-nails coach, Takashima.

Over 35 years, Takashima has led his teams to Koshien a record 21 times, and won 3 National titles.

Through extensive interviews we reveal the mindset of the man many Japanese consider a "living Samurai".

His training regimen focuses not on technique, but rather on developing fighting spirit.

In blistering heat or driving rain, the team trains at least 8 hours a day, 360 days a year.

The Chiben Cheer Squad is legendary throughout Japan, and their senior leader, Furukawa, explains why they too must train so hard.

Whenever Chiben plays a game, they bring the cheer squad, the brass band, cheerleaders, and most of the student body (one thousand strong).

Chiben enters the Wakayama tournament as defending champions and coasts through their first few games.

But in the world of high school baseball, there are no "sure things".

Tennoji is one of the top public schools in Osaka, and students must pass a rigorous exam to get in.

Their baseball coach, Masa-sensei , explains how high school baseball will train his students' hearts for life outside baseball.

All the same, everybody dreams of Koshien.

With such an intense focus on academics, baseball is squeezed into the early morning or late afternoon.

Nevertheless, they practice year-round, six days a week -- before and after school hours -- as well as during vacations, with financial support from their alumni.

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Washington, DC: An Inspiring Tour

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The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg

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Take Me Out to the Ball Game

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