1955 WORLD SERIES

GAME 1

Whitey Ford vs Don Newcombe

The original TV broadcast of Game 1 of the 1955 World Series, Wednesday September 28 at Yankee Stadium, has just been released on a new 2 1/2 hour DVD from Rare Sportsfilms, Inc.! The DVD includes complete pre-game and post-game and all the original commercials! This fabulous DVD presentation also includes a unique Rare Sportsfilms feature - both TV and radio play-by-play game broadcasts! You can use a menu at the beginning of the DVD to watch the game while listening to either the TV play-by-play with Mel Allen and Vin Scully, or the radio call by Al Helfer and Bob Neal! Many fans will want to watch the game twice - viewing the TV picture while listening to first the TV audio, and then later watching with the radio audio. You can also bounce back and forth between radio and TV, half inning by half inning, to further compare both historic play-by-play accounts. 

 This is baseball's third oldest game known to exist. Only six baseball game TV broadcasts before 1965 are known to exist in their entirety! All are World Series games and all but two are owned by Rare Sportsfilms. 

 This iconic game will always be remembered for two Hall-Of-Fame players involved in a famous play that has linked their names together forever in World Series history! It was in the 8th inning that Jackie Robinson stole home off Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford, setting up an argument that will probably never be resolved - was Jackie really SAFE or OUT? On this DVD we show the play from four different film sources. Berra insisted until the day he died that Robinson was out. However we have also added a never-before-heard Mel Allen interview with Jackie from six years later. It's the only known recording of Jackie himself actually discussing this famous play! 

Lot's of action here: Three stolen base attempts, two triples and 5 home runs, including two by Joe Collins. Now you can again "be there" in front of an old B & W TV set more than 70 years later to watch this historic game unfold! This broadcast brings back all the memories of those early televised World Series day games and New York baseball as it was played in the 1950's!

To get your own copy of this fabulous presentation of this iconic game, send $29.95 + $4.50 for shipping and handling to:
(Illinois residents must add $2.30 sales tax)