Nine Innings From Ground Zero: The 2001 World Series [DVD]

Being a west-coast sports fan,I have always hated the Yankees. I don't know what got me into buying this dvd but I must say that I am glad I did. This documentary is the story about the city of New York and one of their most beloved sports teams getting by one of the most horrific events in both New York and American History...9/11. If this tragedy was the illness,then the love of Yankee baseball was the cure. While watching "Nine innings from ground zero",my hate towards this team was put aside while watching it as I got to see the side of Yankee stars that one doesn't see off the field. From the young girl who met Derek Jeter after he learned through her letter that she lost her father in the towers...to the firefighters who put on a smile thanks to a surprise visit from Yankee players...to the group of family members of 9/11 victims who got to attend the world series,I was deeply moved by this documentary. We,the sports fans,are so used to hearing stories about too many sport stars who get in trouble with the law or stars who complain about a 7 to 8 figure contract not being enough,that we seem to forget about the few out there who have alot of good in them. The documentary even has an interview with President George Bush that I am glad was included. I don't care if the war in Iraq is right or wrong nor do I care what party he is. It is a proud moment watching the leader of your country throw out the first pitch at the 2001 World Series while the crowd chants...U-S-A...U-S-A!!! I believe this first pitch is the most memorable one on film to date. After watching Nine innings...,am I still a Yankee hater? Yeah,but I love them for bringing hope and smiles to the people of New York. This dvd is recommended to both the sports fan and non-sports fan. All will not be disappointed. "It's a hit"!

ANY baseball fan who remembers the horror of 9/11 will love this hard-to-find (and sometimes hard to watch) record of how a sport, and the teams who excelled at it, unified and helped heal a city and a nation. Rare interviews with victim family members, players, managers, and politicians enlighten and move viewers about a moment in time. Yankee fans, Met fans...even Diamondback fans will weep, laugh, cheer...and remember.

Loved this documentary about the Yankees and the Diamondbacks perspectives of being in NYC during 9/11.

the main reason i bought this video is because the price finally dropped. i happened to be at this - my first- world series. i watched games three and four in yankee stadium after making the long trek out from colorado in late october. i'm very experiential and had to visit ground zero. every time i'm in nyc i visit the same corner. jeter's november heroics are memorable and by kim's meltdown. he never really recovered from those home runs. kim was just traded from the colorado rockies to the marlins. unfortunately, the yankees lost that one on a luis gonzalez's bloop single off mariano rivera, but there was nothing like watching president bush throw out the first pitch, the wtc flag unfurled over yankee stadium and lee greenwood singing.

In September 2001, my son was four years old. On 9/11/2008 I took him to NYC for a visit to see one of the last Yankees games in the old stadium. I showed my son (a Yankees fan) this video in order to help tell the story of 9/11 and what our country went through. We went to ground zero on the day we arrived, and the video helped him to understand what he saw. It was a great way to share a dark piece of American history while showing our resilience and the role that his beloved Yankees played in it. I recommend this video for anyone who is a baseball lover, or who just wants to see a "feel good" story that shows what it means to be an American.

I read the previews for this before it ever came out, and I had to have it. As a seasonal employee of a Major League Baseball team (not the Yankees or the Diamondbacks) I saw first hand how people congregated to the baseball parks after the tragedy of 9-11. I saw how MLB management worked hard to be supportive during this hard time. I saw story after story in the papers and on TV about Major League clubs helping out in any way the could; especially the Mets and Bobby Valentine spending hours into the nights helping and caring for victims and relief workers at Shea Stadium.And yet, this video didn't really document any of that. This video is 80% New York Yankee propaganda and 20% about baseball helping heal the nation. I was sickened to say the least. As I said, I worked for another MLB team at the time, and I know for a fact that no Yankee player or personnel did anything during this time to help families. Not like the Mets did in New York. Not like the Rangers did in Texas. Not like so many other teams and personnel.I was hoping for a keepsake to document and remember this hard time in American history and how baseball in general, and all Major League teams in particular, helped to bring a nation together. To remember how proud I felt as an employee of an MLB team to have had a part in that.But what I got was not what I expected. Next time, please title it appropriately, or at least describe it better in the description.

Amazing documentary. Not just about the Yankees and the effect of their WS on the people of New York. I believe that even Redsox fans would enjoy this story of bringing out the best in human nature.

Nine Innings From Ground Zero says a lot, shows a lot. Smiles, tears, laughter, joy, and sorrow. Narration is spot on sympathetic and poignant without being overly maudlin. Lot's of stuff in here you may have forgotten, or see for the first time. You need not be a New York Yankees fan to feel the enormous emotion as you see our former President grace the pitcher's mound in pride, defiance, humor, and care...and throw a strike right into the heart of the enemy, and our conscience.