Two Baseball Features Pay Honors to the Boston Red Sox and New York Mets

As part of releasing two epic collector?s set to celebrate 50 years of Mets baseball and the Red Sox?s 100 years spent at Fenway Park, MLB put together commemorative films for both. For the Mets they put together a hall of fame reel to highlight the 50 best players the team has ever fielded, whereas the Red Sox piece looks more at the storied Fenway Park and its fabled Green Monster. It doesn?t take a rocket scientist to figure out that both DVDs are just for the fans, but more specifically they?re the best alternative for baseball lovers who?ve already picked up past DVD releases, making the huge collector?s sets redundant save for these two newly produced features.

Fenway Park: 100 Years as the Heart of Red Sox Nation has every little factoid you could ever hope to know about the field, the famous players and coaches that have graced its grass, and the team?s highs and lows that have made it such a fan-favorite location. The Mets piece is a much simpler piece, simply running through the players, their stats, and the moments that made them the best of the Mets. It?s hard not to feel like the Fenway Park feature has more substance, especially since it seems to have a structure like your average historical documentary, whereas the Mets feature feels like little more than a lazy Saturday afternoon special on ESPN.

DVD Bonus Features

Come on, both films are essentially extras unto themselves, so you shouldn?t be too surprised that the Fenway release only has footage from the ceremony celebrating the field?s 100^th anniversary. By contrast, the Mets DVD release seems a bit lopsided with the extras having more than the main feature, including a piece on the team?s formation and three games from 1986, 1999, and 2006.

"The Fenway Centennial and New York Mets 50 Greatest Players" is on sale September 18, 2012 and is not rated. Documentary.

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