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When America Needed Heroes, A Jewish Slugger Stepped To The Plate.Plot:
The life and career of Hank Greenberg, the first major Jewish baseball star in the Major Leagues. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
12 wins & 4 nominations moreUser Comments:
Very Watchable Story of a Great Ballplayer. more (21 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Rabbi Reeve Brenner | ... | Himself - interviewee |
| Hank Greenberg | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
 | Walter Matthau | ... | Himself - interviewee |
| Alan M. Dershowitz | ... | Himself - interviewee (as Alan Dershowitz) |
| Carl Levin | ... | Himself - interviewee (as Senator Carl Levin) |
| Stephen Greenberg | ... | Himself - interviewee |
| Joseph Greenberg | ... | Himself - interviewee (as Joe Greenberg) |
| Rabbi Max Ticktin | ... | Himself - interviewee |
| Bill Mead | ... | Himself - interviewee |
| Lou Gehrig | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Basil 'Mickey' Briggs | ... | Himself - interviewee |
| Don Shapiro | ... | Himself - interviewee |
| Bert Gordon | ... | Himself - interviewee |
| Joe Falls | ... | Himself - interviewee |
| Henry Ford | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
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Rated PG for thematic elements and mild language.Parents Guide:
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I bought this DVD because of my life-long passion for baseball history, not as someone interested in seeing a story about a Jewish ballplayer. I am always interested in knowing more about these baseball greats of the past, and this documentary did include facts and stories that I did not know, and I enjoyed the interviews of other ballplayers of the same era. Some were greats of the game as well, some were not, but it is wonderful to put a face and a voice to the photos and stats I grew up memorizing as a kid. The documentary was trying so hard to be an exact copy of the Ken Burns style of film making, so much though that it does serve as a distraction, a feeling of unoriginality dimmishes what could have been a great documentary. With that complaint asside, I felt it succeeded in conveying the whole person behind the Stats, behind the Legend, and the WWII Veteran. 8/10