← The Way It Was

Season 1

11 episodes · 1975

  1. 11958 NFL Championship

    09 Jul 1975 · 30 min

    ""The Greatest Game Ever Played"" kicks off The Way It Was in stirring fashion. Thrill to the gutty performances of both the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants as they do battle in the first sudden-death game in football history.

  2. 21954 World Series

    19 Feb 1976 · 30 min

    Who would have thought one exuberant player's circus catch of a certain triple would turn the World Series in favor of the underdog? Willie Mays provided arguably the last great moment in the history of the Polo Grounds as the N.Y. Giants swept the Cleveland Indians for the 1954 title. The Giants would not win another Series for the rest of the 20th century.

  3. 31951 Brooklyn Dodgers - New York Giants National League Playoff

    02 Jul 1975 · 30 min

  4. 41960 Summer Olympics

    11 Mar 1976 · 30 min

  5. 51946 Army-Navy Game

    30 Jul 1975 · 30 min

  6. 6Yankees Dynasty (1)

    06 Mar 1977 · 30 min

  7. 7Yankees Dynasty (2)

    13 Mar 1977 · 30 min

  8. 8Harvard vs. Yale Football, 1968

    27 Mar 1977 · 30 min

  9. 9The 1957 and 1958 NBA Finals

    12 Feb 1976 · 30 min

    The Boston Celtics and St. Louis Hawks traded bunches in their split of the NBA Championships of 1957-58. Now which one was to remain with a dry feeling in its throat afterward?

  10. 10The 1962 NBA Finals

    20 Aug 1975 · 30 min

    The start of Los Angeles Laker heartache (oh, those were the days) came in 1962, when they had a chance to beat the Boston Celtics in regulation time of the seventh Finals game at Boston Garden.

  11. 11Rocky Graziano vs. Tony Zalefinale

    24 Apr 1977 · 30 min