Michael_Elliott Nine Innings from Ground Zero (2004) **** (out of 4) Terrific documentary covering baseball following the September 11, 2001 attacks on America. The documentary picks up on the day of the attacks and then continues as the New York Yankees forced the Arizona Diamondbacks to a Game 7 in the World Series. This is a pretty remarkable and well-balanced documentary that pays great respect to the tragedy that happened but it also showed how important the sport was for people suffering through their pain. We get to hear from various family members of those killed who explain what meeting various baseball players meant to them. This is an incredibly touching documentary that shows what it was like watching baseball in the days and weeks after the terrorist attacks. We see some of the September 21st game between the Mets and Braves as this was the first game played after the attacks. From here we see the ride that the Yankees went on as they fell down 0-2 in the first round to Oakland only to fight back and win. Once they hit the World Series they lost the first two games in Arizona only to return home and win all three in quite a remarkable way. I think this documentary is really going to touch those who watch it because just seeing these emotional games and what they meant to people was something special. As the documentary stated, even if you hated the Yankees you couldn't help but see them as America's team. We get interviews with Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Derek Jeter, Joe Torre, Bobby Valentine, Paul O'Neill, Bob Brenley, Jim Joyce and even President Bush who threw out a famous first pitch at Game 3.

randy m Alright, already. We all know that 9/11 happened and that the Yankees made it into the World Series that year, and lost. Baseball had absolutely nothing to do with the attack. The Yankees won the World Series 26 times before this.. I'm sorry they didn't win it in 01, but they didn't. Nobody would ever make a documentary so biased for the losing team unless they had some money to gain, shame. This documentary is just an insult to the Diamondbacks, and an insult to intelligence. It paints the DBacks as the enemy, which they weren't. This documentary takes away everything the Diamondbacks achieved. Terrible.1/10 stars. Horrible.

cdphillies62 If you want, read my review but SpeechProf's review says it best. His review was right on the money.Anyway, This is your typical New Yorkian movie where the Yankees and New Yorkians' happiness are all that matter when a tragedy occurs in the almighty city of New York and the only thing left to save their lives from the misery that was 911 are the Yankees winning it all!Pathetic! Although, I do like the ending where the D'backs beat the Yanks. :) A little advice for you New Yorkians. Baseball is just a game. Death is death and baseball can not bring back what so many have lost that horrible day. Honestly, I really can't think of a movie that outraged me more than this one. This tops them all and then some and made me so inspired to actually want to write a review on it. Anyway, do yourself a favor and pass on this garbage even if you have the slightest curiosity of what it's all about. It's just not worth your time.

SpeechProf Well, as a documentary it's all right, but most of the people in it annoyed the hell out of me. It takes on the theme that the Yankees "deserved" to win the World Series because of September 11th, when it all actuality Arizona was the better team. It's another documentary of New Yorkers wanting to claim September 11th as "their own." What the filmmaker and most people involved need to realize is that Sept. 11th was an attack on America, not just New York (apparently the Pentagon and Pennsylvania crashes aren't as important). Don't get me wrong, it's not that I'm not sympathetic, it's just that if anyone deserved to win this World Series, it was Arizona because their team was better.