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08.17.2004 | Documentary Shows Baseball Helped 9/11
ABC News
A new HBO Sports documentary, "Nine Innings From Ground Zero," shows how baseball provided a needed distraction after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Narrated by Liev Schreiber, the film will be shown at sundown Tuesday in a free public screening at Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan, HBO announced. It will then air Sept. 14 (10 p.m. ET) on the cable network.
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08.17.2004 | HBO special recalls 2001 World Series
The Phoenix Business Journal
Customers of pay-TV service HBO may want to mark their calendars for Sept. 14.
That is the date HBO plans to air a special on the 2001 World Series, in which the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the New York Yankees in seven games to win the world championship.
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08.17.2004 | HBO examines baseball's healing power
The Canadian Press
A new HBO Sports documentary, Nine Innings From Ground Zero, shows how baseball provided a needed distraction after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Narrated by Liev Schreiber, the film will be shown at sundown Tuesday in a free public screening at Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan, HBO announced. It will then air Sept. 14 (10 p.m. EDT) on the cable network. Nine Innings From Ground Zero correlates the 2001 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks and the recovery effort at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan.
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08.13.2004 | HBO special shows healing power of baseball
The Journal News
It can be hard to think back to the events of Sept. 11 and feel the same hole in your gut. The tragedy becomes softer in memory because the shock is forever gone.
The beauty and difficulty in watching HBO's "Nine Innings from Ground Zero" is that it evokes the rawness of the days after the Twin Towers collapsed. The movie, which will first air on Sept. 14, tells the story of that wounded New York through the prism of baseball as the Yankees made their fantastic run to the World Series.
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2001 World Series Fun Fact
Andy Pettitte was the only left-handed batter in the lineup during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series when the New York Yankees faced-off against Randy Johnson.
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