A Jewish player who chose not to play on Yom Kippur in 1934 during a heated pennant race, Greenberg had to face a great deal of antisemitism.

Before Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Congress had released men over age 28.

In 1947, Greenberg, as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates and playing his final season, was one of the few ballplayers to give a warm welcome to Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson, the majors' first black player in many years.

[3] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an aggregate score of 97% based on sixty-three positive and two negative critical reviews.

The website’s consensus reads: "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg is an affectionate, often very funny portrait of a baseball pioneer.