I also found out some interesting trivia about this movie...

• This film helped change the rules for how the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences hands out Academy Awards for Documentary work. When this film failed to get an nomination for Best Documentary, even though it was nominated for Best Film Editing, Entertainment Weekly magazine ran a story about how the organization voted for documentary nominations. They discovered that not only were most of the people voting not documentary filmmakers but that they actually worked against giving this film a nomination. As a result, the rules were changed so that documentary filmmakers actually vote in this category.

• Many of the locations used in the movie are now either gone or substantially different. The neighborhood of the Cabrini Green housing project, where one of the players lived, underwent a "gentrification" shortly after the film wrapped. The baseball field shown, for example, now has been replaced by luxury condos and a shopping complex.