7:00 pm Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries Sponsored by: Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication The film looks at baseball's first Jewish star in the 1930s-a time when anti-Semitism flared in the U.S. and raged in Europe. Playing for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg won the American League's Most Valuable Player award twice and came within two home runs of tying Babe Ruth's single-season record in 1938. A 2001 Peabody winner, the film by Aviva Kempner includes rare footage and excerpts from a 1984 interview by Dick Schaap with the original "Hammerin' Hank" himself.News release: http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/peabody-awards-archive-to-show-trio-of-baseball-documentaries-in-march/