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Film: Documentary The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998)

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Baseball's so-called "golden age" fielded many legends — Gehrig and Ruth among them — but no legend spoke as much to the early-20th-century immigrant quite as boldly as Hank Greenberg, the "Jewish slugger" of the Detroit Tigers. Hank wasn't just a Jew — he was a real stand-up guy, giving Jews and Gentiles alike a reason to cheer as Hitler bore down upon the world. Aviva Kempner's Peabody Award-winning doc about the Hall of Famer takes you back to the ball game as if the very future of the country depended on it — and in a way, it did.

– John Hood

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