Air Date
July 9, 1975
Episodes
11 episodes
The Way It Was
Season 1
Episodes
1. 1958 NFL Championship
""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. 1954 World Series
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. 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers - New York Giants National League Playoff
4. 1960 Summer Olympics
5. 1946 Army-Navy Game
6. Yankees Dynasty (1)
7. Yankees Dynasty (2)
8. Harvard vs. Yale Football, 1968
9. The 1957 and 1958 NBA Finals
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. The 1962 NBA Finals
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.
