Aviva Kempner's Oscar-nominated documentary is about baseball like Field of Dreams is about cornfields. Kempner efficiently covers all the bases of Detroit Tigers Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg's magnificent career with archival footage and talking heads, including family members, former teammates and baseball legends, broadcasters and sportswriters, and such unabashed fans as Alan Dershowitz and Walter Matthau.

The day Hank Greenberg, born and bred in the Bronx, became first baseman for the Detroit Tigers was a momentous one for baseball-obsessed Jewish American kids. Not only was Greenberg–two-time winner of the American League's Most Valuable Player award–a great baseball player, but he also was a proud Jew. Playing in the 1930s, when antisemitism permeated American life, Greenberg withstood constant taunts. To his Jewish-American fans, his achievement and athletic grace meant a Jew could become virtually anything in America. Even the rabbis were invested in his success: During the 1934 pennant race, he got a special dispensation to play ball on Rosh Hashanah–but on Yom Kippur, he walked into synagogue like a conquering hero.