OT: The Glory of their Times

[RTK]

Originally Posted by brian1961

Paul, I am not surprised. Too many people become very good at forgetting who loaned them a great read or in this case, a CD set. I still remember with a frown about the time I loaned my copy of BASEBALL BETWEEN THE LINES to the assistant athletic director at Ball State University. I loved that book with its fabulous first-hand stories. I thought he would enjoy it, and he probably really did. However, I did not mean for him to "help himself" to my book! That was forty years ago. I'm long, long over it, but I still remember loaning it,and never getting it back. ---Brian Powell

That's happened to me both with a book about the baseball HoF and a record. I should learn my lesson. I eventually repurchased the record and am thinking about repurchasing the book.

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by RTK

That's happened to me both with a book about the baseball HoF and a record. I should learn my lesson. I eventually repurchased the record and am thinking about repurchasing the book.

Still waiting for my copy of Surrealistic Pillow to be returned. Do you I should just let it go at this point?

[brian1961]

Originally Posted by Paul S

Still waiting for my copy of Surrealistic Pillow to be returned. Do you I should just let it go at this point?

I suppose the character "just wanted something to love", when he/she was "ten feet tall". Back in the day my sister played and played her LP of that album on our Marantz hi-fi. About a decade ago I bought the CD of SURREALISTIC PILLOW. It was nice to hear the whole album again. ---Brian Powell

[matty39]

I thought I might make you guys aware of another "glory of their times". Raresportsfilms.com has a 50 minute dvd entitled "Glory of Their Times". The video has a narrator, uses actual film clips from that period and the voices of the players taken from the original tapes. It was produced for television years ago but recently offered by raresportsfilms. If you are at all interested in early baseball video, this is the source. btw, I have no connection with the above company, other than I have bought a few videos from them.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by matty39

I thought I might make you guys aware of another "glory of their times". Raresportsfilms.com has a 50 minute dvd entitled "Glory of Their Times". The video has a narrator, uses actual film clips from that period and the voices of the players taken from the original tapes. It was produced for television years ago but recently offered by raresportsfilms. If you are at all interested in early baseball video, this is the source. btw, I have no connection with the above company, other than I have bought a few videos from them.

+1 on the video, made by famous Olympic documentarian Bud Greenspan in 1970. It features wonderful period (1900-1920) photos and film clips, not just of baseball but of famous events of the time such as the sinking of the Titanic. The voices are all of real people, including ballplayers from Ritter's taped interviews, and is narrated by the "Voice of God" himself, Alexander Scourby. It it an absolutely wonderful piece of work, of the same high standard of quality as the book and audio set.

[T206Collector]

To purchase the DVD, click here:

http://raresportsfilms.com/1900-1918...-of-times.html

I haven't seen the DVD, but based on the descriptions in this thread, I believe you can watch the film on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4G0nbtLLeQ

[Snapolit1]

I may be in a very very small minority here, but I thought the book was a mixed bag. While some of the chapters were very good and a few riveting, I found a good chunk of it to be just old guys telling the same old war stories that seemed sketchy at best. A lot of the book sounded to me like barroom tales of days gone by of very dubious veracity. Maybe I've read too many books on the limitations of human memory. After a few years you are basically hearing fictional recreation. Never mind 60 years ago.