I had forgotten the feelings of grief.

Within the first minute of Nine Inning from Ground Zero they all came flooding back. The documentary starts with Luis Gonzalez approaching the plate in the bottom of the ninth in game 7. Joe Buck describes it as "the chance of a lifetime." Mariano Rivera goes into his pitch as the scene fades to black and comes up again to see what is happening in the bowels of the rubble of the World Trade Center at the same time. Two months later, and there's still smoke rising from the debris. The shells of building still hang in the background as people labor to clean up the site. It's a scene from hell Dante could not imagine.

Nine Innings from Ground Zero chronicles how baseball helped a city heal. Ballplayers became volunteers packing relief supplies in a stadium parking lot. They became ambassadors, visiting the families and friends of the victims, providing comfort and relief. And they became heroes staging comeback after comeback when all seemed lost.

This movie was an emotional rollercoaster. I found myself moved to tears by the footage of collaspe of the towers and by Mike Piazza's home run in the first game at Shea after the tragedy. The first out of grief, the second out of happiness for the people of the Big Apple. Time dulls the memory of ordinary New Yorkers making food for the firemen, buying carts of bottled water for thirsty workers, lining the streets and cheering as rescuers drove south to the disaster.

The real stars of Nine Innings from Ground Zero are the fans who found solice in the game. Kieran Lynch lost two brothers on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center. He was in the muck and choose game 5 to start climbing out. When Brosius hit the home run to tie the game, he was hugging people he didn't even know. He was out of the muck.

This is a film that should be in your collection. I'm going to bring out once a year or so to remind me of what happened that awful day, because I so easily forget. But I'll also bring it out to remind myself just how inspiring this game can be to many people for many different reasons.