There’s no shortage of great movies about baseball, but there is a severe lack of films about the Negro leagues. The fifth inning of Ken Burns’ expansive “Baseball” covers them with admirable rever…
Given his résumé, that shouldn’t come as a surprise. Pollard’s prior work as director includes “MLK/FBI” and “Citizen Ashe,” and he’s also edited several Spike Lee joints; in addition to a Peabody Award and career achievement prize from the International Documentary Association, he shared an Oscar nomination with Lee for 1997’s “4 Little Girls” about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.in 1947 didn’t come into being the moment baseball was invented.
Many of these leagues were regional organizations composed of just six or eight clubs, with veritable all-star teams like the Homestead Grays, Pittsburgh Crawfords, and Kansas City Monarchs getting special attention here — including the fact that, in occasional exhibition matches against MLB teams, Negro league clubs emerged victorious more often than not.
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