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The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
In the 1930s Jewish Mothers would ask their sons: “What kind of day did Hank have?” Hank Greenberg, the Detroit Tigers Slugger who came close to breaking Babe Ruth’s home run record, was baseball’s first Jewish star. Tall (6’4″), handsome, and uncommonly good-natured, Greenberg was a secular Jew from the Bronx who became “the baseball Moses,” an icon for everyone from Walter Matthau
(“I joined the Beverly Hills Tennis club to eat lunch with him. I don’t play tennis”) to Alan Dershowitz (“I thought he’d become the first Jewish president”). Aviva Kempner’s loving tribute is chock full of wonderful archival footage from the ’30s and ’40s and interviews with a self-effacing Greenberg and many of his tiger teammates. Plus Many Patinkin’s rendition of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” — in Yiddish!
Recognition for the film
Awards & Recognition
2011 WJFF Visionary Award Winner Aviva Kempner
This annual award recognizes and pays tribute to courage, creativity and insight in presenting the diversity of the Jewish experience through the moving image. We are honored to name as the 2011 WJFF Visionary Award recipient “our own” Aviva Kempner. In conjunction with the award, the WJFF is presenting a retrospective of several of Kempner’s films.
Peabody Award Winner 2001
George Foster Peabody Awards
Best Non-Fiction Film 2000
New York Film Critics Association
Best Documentary 2000
National Board Review of Motion Pictures
Best Documentary 2000
Chicago Film Critics
Best Documentary 2000
Las Vegas Film Critics
Voted Best Documentary Film 2001
by the National Society of Film Critics
Best Documentary 2001
2001 Festival de Sevilla Cine y Deporte
Best Documentary 2000
Florida Film Critics
The President’s Award
2001 Columbus International Film & Video Festival
1999 CINE Golden Eagle Award Winner
CINE Awards
Spirit Award for Best Sports Documentary
International Sports Video and Film Awards
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