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![]() Welcome Whenitwasagame.net themes and content are dedicated to the remembrance, celebration and preservation of our baseball heritage. >>See story<< ![]() Unnatural disaster threatens baseball We the fans, the true “owners” of baseball, must hold the commissioner, the team owners, the players and their union accountable. >>See editorial<< ![]() Power surge The '50s was the decade of power and the numbers put up by the untainted athletes were impressive. >>See story and stats<< Your stories Send us your stories and memories from when baseball was a game and not a business. INSIDE: CLUBHOUSE CRONICLES Jimmy Palermo, during a historic 7-day span in May, 1939, saw the meteoric rise of Williams and tragic decline of Gehrig. THE GAME'S GOLDEN ERA An exclusive WIWAG ongoing feature. MEMORIES The field seemed vast to a 7-year old who had looked forward to this day for two months. BREAKING THE COLOR LINE The year marks the 60th anniversary of the first major league tryout for black players. SPECIAL COLOR LINE TIMELINE Bud Fowler is the first know black players on an integrated team. BOOMING BATS of the '50s Qualify as Grade A10. AMERICA'S ORIGINAL SPORTS BAR First sports bar featured 12-inch Farnsworth TV. BASEBALL HISTORIANS Two unsuspecting vintage baseball fans rediscover a "National Treasure." |
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WIWAG's themes and content are dedicated to recalling, celebrating and preserving our baseball heritage. ![]() THE REDISCOVERY of the BOOMING BATS OF THE '50s provided a platform from which to share our stories and passion for our national pastime, and When It Was a Game. Baseball is a unique pastime from which we derive as much pleasure from recalling and reliving the times when we may have been in the stands as we do from actually being there or watching on the tube. Baseball "talk," always embellished by and often mediated by comparative statistical recall, affords connoisseurs of the game a perpetual forum to compare decades, eras and generations of players. We at whenitwasagame.net (WIWAG) consider being a fan
as a way of life which relates directly to family, loyalties and sharing
the passion for the game. WIWAG's themes and content are dedicated to
the remembrance, celebration and preservation of our baseball heritage. Discovering a true treasure of game-used bats that had not seen the light of day for 40 years led to a labor of love involving many hours of research on each player represented in the collection. Although a book may ultimately morph from WIWAG, we recognized the unlimited interactive potential of the web to not only share our stories, but to also hear from the millions of baseball fans who still remember when it was a game. Baseball a mirror of America for five generations One of the most fascinating and enamoring characteristics
of baseball is its paradoxical nature. The "grand old game" is
both timeless, yet ever-changing. We will highlight the historical aspects
of the game that have been a mirror of American society through five
generations and address, in editorial fashion, the issues that impact
baseball today.
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