Season 1

Episodes

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   1. 1958 NFL Championship

   9 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.

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   2. 1954 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.

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   3. 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers - New York Giants National League Playoff

   2 Jul 1975 · 30 min

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   4. 1960 Summer Olympics

   11 Mar 1976 · 30 min

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   5. 1946 Army-Navy Game

   30 Jul 1975 · 30 min

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   6. Yankees Dynasty (1)

   6 Mar 1977 · 30 min

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   7. Yankees Dynasty (2)

   13 Mar 1977 · 30 min

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   8. Harvard vs. Yale Football, 1968

   27 Mar 1977 · 30 min

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   9. The 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?

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    10. The 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.

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    11. Rocky Graziano vs. Tony Zale

    24 Apr 1977 · 30 min