Review of A Really Important Person

. . . because the annual memorial observance falls in the middle of Winter. However, one cable movie channel proved such a wrong-headed notion to be a fallacy this year, marking its "Lest we forget" tribute (in part) by screening A REALLY IMPORTANT PERSON. Filmed during a time when actual Death Camp evidential movie footage was beginning to circulate among the general public, A REALLY IMIPORTANT PERSON commences by naming Detroit Tiger "Hammering Hank" Greenberg in the same breath with Hall of Famers "Night Ride" Longfellow, Tom "Louisiana" Jefferson, and Ben "Lightning" Franklin. The thing that set Hank apart from the other three players was the fact that he was Jewish. Blatant anti-Semitism is the only thing which could stop him from topping Gentile "Babe" Ruth's single-season home run record, and that--combined with Hank taking a multi-season sabbatical in the middle of his MLB career to help liberate the Death Camps--curtailed any chance for Greenberg to best the "Sultan of Swat's" career homer mark. Hank never ranted and raved over such slights. This quiet hero's credo was to live by the Golden Rule, and Do the Right Thing. This is the lesson that Billy's beat cop father teaches his son as A REALLY IMPORTANT PERSON. As long as you live an honest life, baseball can keep any soul from turning into a totalitarian goose-stepper or a cheating Houston Astro!